| Description |
xi, 305 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. Origins: the sources and motives of poetry Ars poetica? / Czeslaw Milosz -- Toward explaining heteronymy / Fernando Pessoa -- The word & culture / Osip Mandelstam -- Some statements / Boris Pasternak -- The duende: theory and divertissement / Federico García Lorca -- Words before a reading / Luis Cernuda -- The irrational element in poetry / Wallace Stevens -- from The formal share / René Char -- from Intentions (imaginary interview) / Eugenio Montale -- from A poet's journal / George Seferis -- The vocation of the poet in the modern world / Delmore Schwartz -- What is not poetry? / Karl Shapiro -- The three faces of love / A.D. Hope -- Poetry and science / Hugh MacDiarmid -- Why write / Günter Kunert -- The specialization of poetry / Wendell Berry -- 2. Practice: the poet's work from Notes on poetry / Antonio Machado -- A poet's notebook / Paul Valéry -- General aims and theories / Hart Crane -- Poetic manifesto / Dylan Thomas -- Projective verse and the practice / William Carlos Williams -- The pleasures of formal poetry / Louise Bogan -- Idiosyncrasy and technique / Marianne Moore -- The woman at the Washington Zoo / Randall Jarrell -- Writing / W.H. Auden -- Some notes on organic form / Denise Levertov -- Notes on poetic form / Robert Duncan -- Feelings into words / Seamus Heaney -- The real work (excerpts from an interview) / Gary Snyder |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 297-300 |
| Subject |
Poetics.
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Poetry -- History and criticism.
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Poetry.
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| Author |
Gibbons, Reginald.
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| LC no. |
79010673 |
| ISBN |
0395276160 |
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0395280575 (paperback) |
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