Behind the Lines
Subtitle: Pieces on Writing and Pictures
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: October 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780571195237
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; Literature; Criticism; Essays; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Art criticism; Books; History and criticism; Reviews
First sentence: Poets and others are always talking about the essential thisness or thatness of poetry, but surely no one but Wallace Stevens would have come up with 'gaudiness' as the thing.