On January 18, 1914, seven male poets gathered to eat a peacock. W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound, the celebrities of the group, led four lesser-known poets to the Sussex manor house of the man they were honouring, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: the poet, horse-breeder, Arabist, and anti-imperi…
By looking at the precedents, circumstances and artistry of the first perfect poems composed by John Milton, John Keats, T.S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath, this title offers insight into the mysterious process of coming of age as a poet.
"The Poetry of the Self-Taught demonstrates the characteristic strengths of self-taught poetry and analyzes the factors that have caused most self-taught poets to disappear from anthologies and from literary history. Raising the question of whether or not their work should he re…
Conversations with Stanley Kunitz
by Kunitz, Stanley, Ljungquist, Kent
fromLiterary conversations series
Passwords Primeval sets aside the artificial boundaries of poetry "schools" and "movements" to cut to the art of the matter. Tony Leuzzi's astounding knowledge of poetry draws new insights from such luminaries as Billy Collins, Gerald Stern, Jane Hirshfield, Patricia Smith, and …
Passwords Primeval sets aside the artificial boundaries of putry "schools" and "movements" to cut to the art of the matter. Tony Leuzzi's astounding knowledge of putry draws new insights from such luminaries as Billy Collins, Gerald Stern, Jane Hirshfield, Patricia Smith, and Ma…
Passwords Primeval sets aside the artificial boundaries of poetry "schools" and "movements" to cut to the art of the matter. Tony Leuzzi's astounding knowledge of poetry draws new insights from such luminaries as Billy Collins, Gerald Stern, Jane Hirshfield, Patricia Smith, and …