Other Traditions (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (799 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 067400664X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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The first three essays gently begin binding together an abundance of motives for writing, from poetic visions and intoxications to theatrical dreams. For all academic and larger public libraries.AScott Hightower, Fordham Univ., New York Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. In each essay, he attempts to grasp and convey the strange originality of each writer's work, providing a "user-friendly" set of illuminating commentaries about the legacy and dignity of writing and the nature of truth and poetry. History and geography are shown to be imp
Excellent Ashbery! Ashbery's writing flows like the music of Mozart, but free from the heavy clichés of classicism. To talk about difficult things in a light way is the divine gift (or the result of a hard work) mr. Ashbery divides with us, his readers.. What Ashbery Values Here are six essays by John Ashbery about six of his favourite minor poets, ranging from John Clare, born in 1790s England, to David Schubert, born 1913 in New York. John Brooks Wheelwright and Laura Riding are included, from the early 20th century, as is Raymond Roussel (a French precursor to anti-novelists, a specialist in parenthetical labyrinths, and endlessly detailed descriptions of bottle-labels). We have, too, the. Unusual perspective on poetry Instead of offering predictable comments on well-known poets, John Ashbery has chosen to explain his preference for seemingly eccentric figures like John Clare and Raymond Roussel. While Ashbery is a difficult poet, his prose is reader-friendly; this book, then, provides insight into Ashbery's own unique poetic sensibility, as well as into the poets and writers he has chosen.This book provokes thought about issues of lite
With its indirect clues to his work and its generous and infectious appreciation of a remarkable group of poets, this book conveys the passion, delight, curiosity, and insight that underlie the art and craft of poetry for writer and reader alike. Less familiar than some, under Ashbery's scrutiny these poets emerge as the powerful but private and somewhat wild voices whose eccentricity has kept them from the mainstream--and whose vision merits Ashbery's efforts, and our own, to read them well. One of the greatest living poets in English here explores the work of six writers he often finds himself reading "in order to get started" when writing, poets he turns to as "a poetic jump-start for times when the batteries have run down." Among those whom John Ashbery reads at such times are John Clare, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Raymond Roussel, John Wheelwright, Laura Riding, and David Schubert. Even as it invites us to discover the work of poets in Ashbery's other tradition, it reminds us of Ashbery's essential place in our own.. Deeply