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Laddar... The Occasions of Poetryav Thom Gunn
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. A very worthwhile book of critical essays on individuals poets ranging in time from Fulke Greville and Ben Jonson to Gary Snyder and Robert Duncan. The book is rounded out with several charming short autobiographical pieces or reminiscences. Gunn's critical procedure is to discuss some feature of a poet that he thinks makes him worth reading, and then to illustrate this with close readings of short poems or excerpts. He is particularly sensitive to how the movement of the verse affects communication of meaning, a sensitivity he attributes to his training under Leavis and Yvor Winters. He chooses to write about poets that he feels a strong affinity for and the love comes through. Although Gunn is perhaps best known these days as a "gay poet", the only extended treatment of gay themes here is in his essay on Robert Duncan. ( ) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
"For me the act of writing is an exploration, a reaching out, an act of trusting search for the correct incantation that will return me certain feelings whenever I want them. And of course I have never completely succeeded in finding the correct incantations." --Thom Gunn Thom Gunn is well-known as a poet, and increasingly as a literary critic. The Occasions of Poetry includes insightful critical pieces on writers ranging from William Carlos Williams and Gary Snyder to Thomas Hardy and Robert Duncan. "The occasion in all cases," writes Gunn, "is the starting point, only, of a poem, but it should be a starting point to which the poet must in some sense stay true." The first loyalty of a writer who is "true to his occasions," he writes, must be to the facts of experience. The book includes five autobiographical essays, which combine to form an engaging account of the author's development as a poet and to chronicle some of the most significant literary currents of recent decades, both in England and America. Thom Gunn, born in England in 1929, has lived in America since 1954. His books include Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs, and an Interview; The Man with Night Sweats; Collected Poems; and The Passages of Joy. The Occasions of Poetry was originally published by Faber and Faber. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)821.009Literature English & Old English literatures English poetry English poetry {by more than one author} Modified standard subdivisions History, description, critical appraisal of English poetry not limited by time period or kind of formKlassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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