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Robert Phillips Karl Shapiro - Essay on Rime: With Trial of a Poet - 9780472098132 - V9780472098132
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Essay on Rime: With Trial of a Poet

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Description for Essay on Rime: With Trial of a Poet Hardcover. Now back in print, two brilliant verse-essays on poets and poetry by an American master Series: Poets on Poetry. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 200 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 280.

This book restores to print two important verse-essays on the art of poetry by one of America's most honored poets. "Trial of a Poet" was born of Karl Shapiro's serving on the jury that awarded the first Bollingen Prize in Poetry, voting on moral grounds against giving the prize to the winner, Ezra Pound. "Essay on Rime" confronts the confusions Shapiro found in poetry in general and in the work of many specific, noted poets.
Shapiro wrote this 2072-line blank-verse meditation on "the treble confusion / In modern rime" in 1945, when he was thirty and serving a stint ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Poets on Poetry
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472098132
SKU
V9780472098132
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