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The Sleeping Gypsy is an important collection of poems by an American writer who was only twenty-nine when awarded the coveted Prix de Rome in 1958. When George Garrettâs first collected verse, The Reverend Ghost and Other Poems, appeared in Scribnerâs Poets of Today: IV, critics hailed the emergence of an authentic new talent of great promise. Babette Deutsch, writing in the New York Herald Tribune, said, âHis poems are short, highly charged, and also, as he intended, clear. They move rapidly, without waste, exhibiting a lively skill and vigor in action.⦠His sensitive perceptivity makes his thoughtful insights more memorable.â Louise Bogan, writing in the New Yorker, said, âIt is good to come upon [in Garrettâs work] an ordered brilliance and effects, long neglected, that link us to the ancient tradition of English âsong.ââ
Readers will find in The Sleeping Gypsy all of the qualities that distinguished Garrettâs earlier collection of verseâthe pointed, incisive writing, the abhorrence of âprettyâ poetic words, the harsh impact of language that is, at the same time, strangely musical. Many will feel that, in this later work, these qualities have been enhanced and that Garrettâs advancing maturity indicates strongly that his early promise will be richly fulfilled.
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