The Poet's work
Subtitle: 29 masters of 20th century poetry on the origins and practice of their art
By: edited by Reginald Gibbons.
Contributors: Gibbons, Reginald.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Poetry; Poetics
Description: This anthology brings together essays by 20th-century poets on their own art: some concern themselves with its deep sources and ultimate justifications; others deal with technique, controversies among schools, the experience behind particular poems. The great Modernists of most countries are presented here--Paul Valéry, Federico García Lorca, Boris Pasternak, Fernando Pessoa, Eugenio Montale, Wallace Stevens--as are a range of younger, less eminent figures from the English-speaking world: Seamus Heaney, Denise Levertov, Wendell Berry. . . . The reader will find here a lively debate over the individualistic and the communal ends served by poetry, and over other issues that divide poets: inspiration and craft; the use or the condemnation of science; traditional and 'organic' form.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 297-300.