Kenneth Rexroth
Birth date: December 22, 1905
Died: June 06, 1982
Kenneth Rexroth's Books
[Nota bene: I have combined the reviews of three books into one and used the same review for each. So if you have read one, you have read all three.] Meleager brings you his lamp, O Venus, For it knows how he celebrates you in the dark. The Greek Anthology is an unusual text with roots in a...
Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982), American poet, literary critic and essayist, was also an interesting translator of classical Chinese and Japanese poetry. I review one of his many collections of Chinese poetry here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/609982860 and the precursor, 100 Poems from the...
Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982), American poet, literary critic and essayist, was also an interesting translator of classical Chinese and Japanese poetry. Not unexpectedly, his interest in such poetry influenced his own poems, and, necessarily, his own poetics strongly influenced his translations. An in...
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