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Pages: 325
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Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-07 - Publisher: Macmillan

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T. S. Eliot was not only one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century—he was also one of the most acute writers on his craft. In On Poetry and Poets, wh
What Are Poets For?
Language: en
Pages: 247
Authors: Gerald L Bruns
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06 - Publisher: University of Iowa Press

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Conceptions and practices of poetry change not only from time to time and from place to place but also from poet to poet. This has never been more the case than
A Poet's Glossary
Language: en
Pages: 683
Authors: Edward Hirsch
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-08 - Publisher: HarperCollins

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A major addition to the literature of poetry, Edward Hirsch’s sparkling new work is a compilation of forms, devices, groups, movements, isms, aesthetics, rhet
Talk Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 221
Authors: David Baker
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-01 - Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

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What is more direct and intimate than one-to-one conversation? Here two forces in American poetry, the Kenyon Review and the University of Arkansas Press, bring
How Poets See the World
Language: en
Pages: 253
Authors: Willard Spiegelman
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-06-23 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. Th