He has rethought the sonnet, the elegy, the historical poem, the archaeological poem, the sequence; he has invented a new vein of phenomenological abstraction in landscape poetry; he has renovated terza ryma in demotic language, and, in his ‘squarings’, explored the potential of the douzain. He has ...
He has rethought the sonnet, the elegy, the historical poem, the archaeological poem, the sequence; he has invented a new vein of phenomenological abstraction in landscape poetry; he has renovated terza ryma in demotic language, and, in his ‘squarings’, explored the potential of the douzain. He has ...
This book is valuable both for lit folk and poets. Although I'm not a big reader of George Herbert, there were still some useful and interesting bits in that chapter. Whitman I love, and Ashbery I struggle with, so those chapters were more captivating. I don't buy every argument, especially when it ...
I thought this was an exceptional book, in the way it made me view the sonnets in an entirely different fashion. Reccommended for those who can't quite fit their head into the jar of the sonnets although they are interested in them.
This slim book was marvelous and enriching. It helps humanize Wallace Stevens. Of course his poems can still mean anything you want them to but I think most Wallace Stevens fans will appreciate Vendler's readings. "The Snow Man" has long been one of my favorite Stevens poems, and now I appreciate it...
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