Some Poets and Their Resources: The Future Agenda : Lawrence, Emerson, Heaney, Bishop, Muir, Thomas, Melville, Wilbur

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University Press of America, 1995 - 198 pages
In an unusual grouping of early and comtemporary twentieth-century poets with Emerson and Melville, this book explores imaginative resources for the poetry of the future. It brings out the testing of form by new phases of experience and the ability of poetry to transform experience by search for veracity in language. Contents: About Edwin Muir and the Escape from Myth; About D.H. Lawrence and the Search for Form; About the Dylan Thomas Puzzle; About Concord and the Astonished Muse; About Melville and the Angel; Of Land and Language, Rhythm and Rivering.

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About D H Lawrence
21
About the Dylan Thomas Puzzle
39
About Concord
57
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^BLaurence Stapleton^B is Mary E. Garrett Professor Emeritus of English at Bryn Mawr College.

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