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Allegory
Ambivalence
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Anthropomorphism
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Awareness
Bathos
Ben Jonson
Blank verse
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Couplet
David Ferry (poet)
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Diction
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Essays (Montaigne)
Evocation
Exposition (narrative)
Ezra Pound
Figure of speech
Francis Fergusson
Free verse
Gloom
Imagism
Irony
John Ashbery
John Berryman
John Clare
Joke
Journal
Literary criticism
Mannerism
Metaphor
Misery (novel)
National Endowment for the Humanities
Nominalism
Ode to a Nightingale
Of Modern Poetry
Parody
Pathetic fallacy
Pessimism
Poetic diction
Poetry
Prose
Quotation mark
Rhetoric
Romanticism
Rutgers University Press
Self-parody
Sentimentality
Seriousness
Silliness
Simile
Sonnet
Sophistication
Stanza
Suggestion
Surrealism
Sylvia Plath
The Dream Songs
The Other Hand
The Various
Theodore Roethke
Uncertainty
W. S. Merwin
Wallace Stevens
Wellesley College
Writer
Writing
Yvor Winters
Product details
- ISBN 9780691013527
- Weight: 255g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 21 Oct 1978
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this book Robert Pinsky writes about contemporary poetry as it reflects its modernist and Romantic past. He isolates certain persistent ideas about poetry's situation relative to life and focuses on the conflict the poet faces between the nature of words and poetic forms on one side, and the nature of experience on the other. The author ranges for his often surprising examples from Keats to the great modernists such as Stevens and Williams, to the contents of recent magazines. He considers work by Ammons, Ashbery, Bogan, Ginsberg, Lowell, Merwin, O'Hara, and younger writers, offering judgments and enthusiasms from a viewpoint that is consistent but unstereotyped. Like his poetry, Robert Pinsky's criticism joins the traditional and the innovative in ways that are thoughtful and unmistakably his own. His book is a bold essay on the contemporary situation in poetry, on the dazzling achievements of modernism, and on the nature or "situation" of poetry itself.
