num_pages: 308
description: U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass considers some of the twentiethcentury poets who bring him pleasure: Robert Lowll, JamesWright, Tomas Transtromer, Joseph Brodsky, Yvor Winters,Robert Creeley, James McMichael, Czeslaw Milosz, and others,in this, his first collection of essays. Originally published in1984, Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry won theNational Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. A new collection of Robert Hass's essays will be published by Ecco in 1998.
language: English
title: Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry
titlecomplete: Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry
genres: Literary Criticism, Criticism, Crafts, Writing, Literary Fiction, Essays, Poetry, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 259
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Criticism
publisher: Ecco