Poetry as enchantment and other essays

"In the essays in Poetry as Enchantment-more personal than any of his earlier works-Dana Gioia shares a lifetime of thought and experience about poetry. Gioia, the author of Can Poetry Matter?, talks about poetry in a radically different way than it is currently being taught or discussed. In th...

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1. Verfasser: Gioia, Dana 1950- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Philadelphia Paul Dry Books 2024
Ausgabe:First Paul Dry Books edition
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • I. Essays. Poetry as enchantment
  • Class struggle: Donald Davie at Stanford
  • Robert Frost and the modern narrative poem
  • The unknown soldier: The war poetry of John Allan Wyeth
  • II. Short takes. Where home may be: Elizabeth Bishop
  • Blindingly undiminished; Philip Larkin
  • "I am the King's son": Samuel Menashe
  • Good poems: Garrison Keillor
  • Back from oblivion: Weldon Kees
  • In praise of Lim: Shirley Geok-lin Lim
  • Heaney in Hades: Seamus Heaney's Virgil
  • The last of the great quarterlies: Frederick Morgan and the Hudson Review
  • III. West Coast reports. Ray Bradbury's butterfly effect
  • "Just one damn thing after another": Jack Foley's literary timeline
  • Los Angeles as a cultural home
  • The state of poetry: Loud and live