Fine incisions : essays on poetry and place /

Fine Incisions is a collection of twenty-four gracious, intelligent and occasionally fractious essays, wide-ranging in their interests and rigorous in their analyses. Ormsby's reverence for language is luminously clear as he examines his international travels, the work of James Merrill, the sta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ormsby, Eric L. (Eric Linn), 1941- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Erin, Ont. : Porcupine's Quill, ©2011.
Temas:
Ormsby, Eric L. > (Eric Linn), > 1941- > Travel.
Ormsby, Eric L. > (Eric Linn), > 1941- > Voyages.
Ormsby, Eric L. > (Eric Linn), > 1941-
Poetry > History and criticism.
Poésie > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
Poetry
Travel
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Shadow language : foreign accents in English poetry passionate syntax (William Butler Yeats)
  • The king of never-to-be (Walter De la Mare)
  • Butterfly on a wheel (Bob Dylan)
  • Gilded totems (James Merrill)
  • Mosquitoes in Eden (Richard Outram)
  • Ultimate distillations (Daryl Hine)
  • Ancient chills (Elizabeth Bishop)
  • An austere opulence (Geoffrey Hill)
  • Fine incisions : reflections on reviewing
  • Delousing the soul (J.-K. Huysmans)
  • The house in his mind (William Maxwell)
  • Secret lightning-flashes (Leo Tolstoy)
  • The view from a falling house (Katherine Anne Porter)
  • The disaster parade (Richard Yates)
  • Waiting for the grammarians (C.P. Cavafy)
  • Ambitious diminutives (La Fontaine)
  • Prague of a hundred towers
  • Two letters from Prague
  • In search of al-Mâjt̂
  • T̋he happiest man in Morocco
  • The born schoolmaster (S.D. Goitein).

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