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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Columbia Univ Pr
Publication date November 1, 1997
Pages 318
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780231108966
ISBN-10 0231108966
Dimensions 0.75 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Weight 1.40 lbs.
Original list price $95.00
Other format details university press
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Summaries and Reviews
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One of the twentieth century's most distinguished poets and critics presents a collection of new and seminal essays treating such topics as the poetry of John Ashbery, the relationship between poetry and the individual, and the definition of a poet. UP. (view table of contents)
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New and classic essays by one of America's most distinguished contemporary poet-critics, The Work of Poetry surveys an extraordinary range of poets, from Dante to May Swenson, and George Meredith to Marianne Moore, as well as works from the Psalms to A Child's Garden of Verses. By turns generous and uncompromising, Hollander champions the enduring force of poetry against the incursion of fashionable writing. This is an elegant, uncompromising affirmation of the extraordinary powers of poetic imagination from a poet whose poems have been hailed by J.D. McClatchy as "ways of thinking on paper."



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Hardcover
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from Columbia Univ Pr (November 1, 1997)
9780231108966 | details & prices | 318 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 0.75 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $95.00
About: Collects twenty-three essays by the well-known poet and critic that take on the whole genre of poetry, showing the author's approach and priorities in reading poetic texts
Paperback
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from Columbia Univ Pr (April 1, 1998); titled "Work of Poetry"
9780231108973 | details & prices | 368 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $32.00

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