Unrelenting readers
Subtitle: the new poet-critics
By: edited by Paul M. Hedeen and D.G. Myers.
Contributors: Hedeen, Paul M., 1953-; Myers, D. G.
Publisher: Story Line Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Ashland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Description: "This is an anthology, not a manifesto. And yet this book advances the claim that a new movement of poets has arrived on the literary scene. This movement is neither geographical nor generational, though all of these poets began their careers since the late sixties. It is united neither by gender nor race: not by its practice of "form," and not by its conviction that the poem is a "field." Simply and sheerly, the movement is known by its devotion to critical intelligence." "Heirs of Sidney and Jonson, Dryden and Shelley, Stevens and Eliot, the poets in this anthology subscribe to the Renaissance ideal of the literary career, believing that great poets are obliged to try their hands at all of the literary genres. For them, one of the most important genres is criticism." "The essays collected here represent a revived seriousness and intelligence in the field of poetry criticism. The work represents and examines all of the major schools and movements of the last sixty years in American poetry. The Poetry Wars are at last decoded."--BOOK JACKET.