A Reader's Guide to the Poetry of Richard WilburA comprehensive critical guide to the poetry of Richard Wilbur, United States poet laureate. This survey is unified by its focus on two central concerns of Wilbur's poetry, namely the synthesis of matter and spirit and the reconciliation of regional and cosmopolitan viewpoints. |
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Page 13
... poet's editorial comment is as cryptic and elusive as anything in Frost , his irresolute use of " something " picking up such state- ments as that at the start of Mending Wall . Yet , while the caddis fly might seem to symbolize the ...
... poet's editorial comment is as cryptic and elusive as anything in Frost , his irresolute use of " something " picking up such state- ments as that at the start of Mending Wall . Yet , while the caddis fly might seem to symbolize the ...
Page 60
... poet . " To an American Poet Just Dead " ( NCP , p . 329 ) is , all the same , a well - turned mock - dirge , two - pronged in its attack . There is the mismatch of the unnamed poet's Anacreontic fervor and the squalor of his addiction ...
... poet . " To an American Poet Just Dead " ( NCP , p . 329 ) is , all the same , a well - turned mock - dirge , two - pronged in its attack . There is the mismatch of the unnamed poet's Anacreontic fervor and the squalor of his addiction ...
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... poet's impulse to concretize provides a meta- phor for the compulsion on the veggente to reveal to others what they have forgotten . It is as much a donnée of his consciousness as it is of the corpore- alizing poet's . Anthony Hecht has ...
... poet's impulse to concretize provides a meta- phor for the compulsion on the veggente to reveal to others what they have forgotten . It is as much a donnée of his consciousness as it is of the corpore- alizing poet's . Anthony Hecht has ...
Contents
Introduction I | 1 |
Ceremony and Other Poems 1950 | 62 |
Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems 1961 | 92 |
Copyright | |
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