Re verse
Subtitle: essays on poetry and poets
By: David R. Slavitt.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: American poetry -- History and criticism; English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Description: "David R. Slavitt does not believe in literary criticism so much as in "remarks," and in this witty and unusual work, he remarks on the life of the poet: how it was - and how it is - to be an American writer in our time. Combining personal reminiscence with deft literary analysis, incisive biographical sketches, and, sometimes, literary gossip, the essays in Re Verse give new perspectives on the famous, including Harold Bloom, Robert Penn Warren, Robert Frost, and Stephen Spender, and recover the charms of the nearly forgotten, such as Dudley Fitts, Winfield Townley Scott, Merrill Moore, and John Hall Wheelock."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A master's essay: Dudley Fitts; title: Dr. Moore; title: Winfield Townley Scott; title: "An anatomy of the world: the first anniversary" by John Donne; title: Shine in the dreadfull dark: the Sidnean Psalms; title: Harold Bloom and the decline of civility; title: Robert Penn Warren; title: Poetic justice; title: John Hall Wheelock; title: Adrien Stoutenburg; title: Ole Fred; title: Thomas McAfee; title: Richaleh: Richard Elman; title: So there were these two Jews: the poetry of Irving Feldman; title: The poetry of grief.