Sparring with the sun
Subtitle: poets and the ways we think about poetry in the late days of modernism
By: Jan Schreiber
Edition: 1st Antilever ed.
Publisher: Antilever Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: [Champaign?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781938308062
Subjects: American poetry; History and criticism; Modernism (Literature); Poetics; History; Modern Poetry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Six poets of the late twentieth century. 1. The odyssey of Robert Lowell; title: 2. Elizabeth Bishop: accuracy, spontaneity, mystery; title: 3. Howard Nemerov, nature poet; title: 4. The achievements of Anthony Hecht; title: 5. Unguided and apart: the poems of W. D. Snodgrass; title: 6. Virtuoso of balance: Richard Wilbur; title: II. The aspirants. 7. Lost and found; title: 8. Modernism's last gasp?; title: III. The sorting-out process; title: 9. Yvor Winters: the absolutist; title: 10. Judgment: an agenda for critics; title: 11. The functions of poetry; title: 12. Poetry and the problem of standards.