Twentieth century pleasures
Subtitle: prose on poetry
By: Robert Hass.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780880015394
Subjects: Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Other titles: 20th century pleasures.
Description: U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass considers some of the twentieth century poets who bring him pleasure: Robert Lowell, James Wright, Tomas Transtromer, Joseph Brodsky, Yvor Winters, Robert Creeley, James McMichael, Czeslaw Milosz, and others, in this, his first collection of essays.
Table of contents: title: Lowell's graveyard; title: James Wright; title: One body: some notes on form; title: Tranströmer's Baltics; title: What furies; title: Listening and making; title: Four reviews.  Lost in translation : a part of speech / by Joseph Brodsky ; What he did : an introduction to the poetry of Yvor Winters / by Elizabeth Isaacs ;  Creeley, his metric : the collected poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-75 ; McMichael's Pasadena : four good things / by James McMichael; title: Reading Miłosz; title: Some notes on the San Francisco Bay area as a culture region : a memoir; title: Looking for Rilke; title: Images.