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The Didactic Muse : Scenes of Instruction in Contemporary American Poetry.

Writing with the vigor and elan that readers have come to expect from his many astute reviews and essays, Willard Spiegelman maintains that contemporary American poets have returned to the poetic aims of an earlier era: to edify, as well as to delight, and thus to serve the ""didactic muse...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Spiegelman, Willard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Princeton legacy library.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments ; ONE ; Introduction: W.H. Auden's New Year Letter
  • TWO ; The Tempered Tone of Howard Nemerov; THREE ; The Moral Imperative in Anthony Hecht, Allen Ginsberg, and Robert Pinsky; FOUR ; Myths of Concretion, Myths of Abstraction: The Case of A.R. Ammons; FIVE ; Driving to the Limits of the City of Words: The Poetry of Adrienne Rich; SIX ; The Sacred Books of James Merrill; SEVEN ; Some Speculations in Place of a Conclusion; Notes; Index.