num_pages: 992
description: National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistIn this stunning volume of epic breadth, Michael Schmidt connects the lives and works of more than 300 poets over the last 700 years--spanning distant shores from Scotland to Australia to the Caribbean, all sharing the English language.Schmidt reveals how each poet has transformed "a common language of poetry" into the rustic rhythms and elegiac ballads, love sonnets, and experimental postmodern verse that make up our lyrical canon.A comprehensive guided tour that is lively and always accessible, Lives of the Poets illuminates our most transcendent literary tradition.
language: English
title: Lives of the Poets
titlecomplete: Lives of the Poets
genres: History, Books About Books, Literary Criticism, Criticism, Reference, Biography, Literature, Writing, Poetry, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 153
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Criticism
publisher: Vintage