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Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics
D Ed - Brown
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Description for Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics
Hardcover. Editor(s): Brown, Deborah; Finch, Annie; Kumin, Maxine. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. .
Compiled by three noted poets, this is an eclectic, stimulating, and informed selection of poets' remarks on poetry spanning eras, ethnicities, and aesthetics. The 102 selections from nearly as many poets reach back to the Greeks and Romans, then draw on Chaucer, Shakespeare, Sidney, and Milton, on to Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, and Poe, then Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, Rilke, and Pound, concluding with many of our contemporaries, including Hall, Clifton, Mackey, Kunitz, and Rukeyser.
The book is divided into three sections. "Musing" concerns issues of inspiration, "Making," issues of craft, from diction to meter to persona and voice, and "Mapping," ... Read more
Compiled by three noted poets, this is an eclectic, stimulating, and informed selection of poets' remarks on poetry spanning eras, ethnicities, and aesthetics. The 102 selections from nearly as many poets reach back to the Greeks and Romans, then draw on Chaucer, Shakespeare, Sidney, and Milton, on to Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, and Poe, then Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, Rilke, and Pound, concluding with many of our contemporaries, including Hall, Clifton, Mackey, Kunitz, and Rukeyser.
The book is divided into three sections. "Musing" concerns issues of inspiration, "Making," issues of craft, from diction to meter to persona and voice, and "Mapping," ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557287915
SKU
V9781557287915
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99-15
About D Ed - Brown
Deborah Brown is a professor of English at the University of New Hampshire at Manchester and author of News from the Grate. Annie Finch is director of the Stonecoast low-residency MFA program at the University of Southern Maine, and the author of a number of books, including The Body of Poetry, Calendars, Eve, and A Formal Feeling Comes: ... Read more
Reviews for Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics
In my long shelf-life as a poet I have often been struck-amused, amazed, even made thoughtful-by the sharply opposing views of poets. . . . The views of the practitioners were what I was after, not those of the detached and theoretical critics. . . . Perhaps this book will invite the gestation of other texts that will fill in ... Read more