The Consuming Myth

Released on 1987 by Stephen Yenser
The Consuming Myth

Author: Stephen Yenser

Publisher: Harvard University Press

ISBN: 0674166159

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 367

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Yenser ranges over all of Merrill's writing to date, from a precocious book printed when its author was fifteen to his most recent publication, a verse play. He writes about both of the poet's novels and pays particular attention to the epic poem The Changing Light at Sandover.

The Consuming Myth
Language: en
Pages: 367

The Consuming Myth

Authors: Stephen Yenser
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

Yenser ranges over all of Merrill's writing to date, from a precocious book printed when its author was fifteen to his most recent publication, a verse play. He writes about both of the poet's novels and pays particular attention to the epic poem The Changing Light at Sandover.
The Poetics of the Everyday
Language: en
Pages: 319

The Poetics of the Everyday

Authors: Siobhan Phillips
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

Wallace Stevens once described the "malady of the quotidian," lamenting the dull weight of everyday regimen. Yet he would later hail "that which is always beginning, over and over"?recognizing, if not celebrating, the possibility of fresh invention. Focusing on the poems of Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and James
Nothing to Admire
Language: en
Pages: 219

Nothing to Admire

Authors: Christopher Yu
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

This book calls the resulting outlook "cultural liberalism" in order to distinguish it from the classical liberal insistence on private property as the basis of political liberty, a conviction that arises within the same general period and often stands in adversarial relation to the Augustan mentality."--BOOK JACKET.
A Thickness of Particulars
Language: en
Pages: 288

A Thickness of Particulars

Authors: Jonathan Post
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-26 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

A Thickness of Particulars: The Poetry of Anthony Hecht is the first book-length study of one of the great formal poets of the later twentieth century (1923-2004). Making use of Hecht's correspondence, which the author edited, it situates Hecht's writings in the context of pre- and post-World-War II verse, including
Everyday and Prophetic
Language: en
Pages: 293

Everyday and Prophetic

Authors: Nick Halpern
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

"Halpern traces the complex relationship between the everyday and prophetic voices, arguing that their failure or success in the poem determines whether the reader is rewarded with sharp disappointment or tremendous excitment."--BOOK JACKET.