Essays on poetry
By: Ralph J. Mills, Jr. ; introduction by Michael Anania.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Normal, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
Subjects: American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Poetry
Description: "Taken from throughout Mills's career, the essays collected in this volume delve into the work of such influential writers as Wallace Stevens, Denise Levertov, Samuel Beckett, Galway Kinnell, Edith Sitwell, Theodore Roethke, Karl Shapiro, Richard Wilbur, Isabella Gardner, James Wright, David Ignatow, Donald Hall, Robert Bly, Philip Levine, and Stanley Kunitz. Mills examines how the personal element informs the works of these writers and enables them "to speak to us, without impediment, from the deep center of a personal engagement with existence." Book jacket."--Jacket.