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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jonathan F S Post |
| ISBN: | 0520214552 9780520214552 0520227522 9780520227521 |
| OCLC Number: | 47716509 |
| Description: | xiv, 300 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Green Thoughts, Green Shades / Jonathan F.S. Post -- 1. The Face of the Sonnet: Wyatt and Some Early Features of the Tradition / Peter Sacks -- 2. Sidney and the Sestina / Anthony Hecht -- 3. Naked Numbers: A Curve from Wyatt to Rochester / Heather McHugh -- 4. Ben Jonson and the Loathed Word / Linda Gregerson -- 5. Donne's Sovereignty / Calvin Bedient -- 6. Anomaly, Conundrum, Thy-Will-Be-Done: On the Poetry of George Herbert / Carl Phillips -- 7. Milton in the Modern: The Invention of Personality / William Logan -- 8. Finding Anne Bradstreet / Eavan Boland -- 9. Unordinary Passions: Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of New Castle / Alice Fulton -- 10. "How Coy a Figure": Marvelry / Stephen Yenser -- 11. Saint John the Rake: Rochester's Poetry / Thom Gunn -- 12. Edward Taylor: What Was He Up To? / Robert Hass. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Jonathan F.S. Post. |
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"What a delight it is to read these astute essays by poets one admires about poets one has treasured for years! The critical intelligence and lively writing on every page should appeal to a wide audience. Students of the Early Modern Lyric will find much to refresh their understanding; the general reader will be seduced - and rewarded."-Chana Bloch, author of Mrs. Dumpty and co-translator of The Song of Songs; "This is a splendid collection, shrewdly conceived and brilliantly executed, which should be read by anyone who loves poetry. As some of our most accomplished contemporary poets ruminate on the poetry of the seventeenth century, they also illuminate the practices and possibilities of twenty-first century poetry."-Michael Schoenfeldt, author of Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England; "All poetry in English reaches back one way or another for its pith and sweetness to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. There is always, in every true poem, some seed or element of that period, honey of lute song or devotional bite. I think that goes for Frank O'Hara and Allen Ginsberg, for Elizabeth Bishop and Gwendolyn Brooks and Robert Lowell, for Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore, for Mark Strand and Frank Bidart and Louise Gluck, for C. D. Wright and Michael Palmer, and for the young poets in college and high school. You can hear it and feel it, through infinite variations-and that is why this book is a great idea."-Robert Pinsky, former Poet Laureate of the United States; "I am delighted by Jonathan Post's collection. There is no other collection or anthology of this sort, or even remotely similar, available to students of poetry of the past, or to readers of contemporary poets. Green Thoughts, Green Shades is the liveliest collection of criticism I have read in a long time."-Richard Howard, author of Trappings: New Poems Read more...
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