Selected essays and reviews / by Hayden Carruth.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carruth, Hayden, 1921-2008
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Port Townsend, WA : Copper Canyon Press, c1996.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Dr. Williams's Paterson
  • Stevens as essayist
  • Write little; do it well
  • Without the inventions of sorrow
  • To fashion the transitory
  • The closest permissible approximation
  • Poets without prophecy
  • Multiple disguises
  • Pursy Windhum Lucigen
  • Upon which to rejoice
  • Ezra Pound and the great style
  • Materials from life
  • Delmore, 1913-1966
  • A meaning of Robert Lowell
  • A turn in the rhyme
  • Melancholy monument
  • Spenser and his modern critics
  • The writer's situation
  • A focus, a crown
  • Poet of civility
  • Seriousness and the inner poem
  • Fallacies of silence
  • A location of J.V. Cunningham
  • Robert Frost
  • The sun's progeny
  • Italian sensibility
  • Pact of blood
  • The question of poetic form
  • The act of love : poetry and personality
  • The man in the box at Walden
  • Our man in Twit'nam
  • Three notes on the versewriting of Alexander Pope
  • Chants, oracles, body-rhythms
  • The spirit of Lo Lenga d'òc
  • Notes on meter
  • Notes on metaphor
  • With respect to the infuriating pervasiveness of optimism
  • Paul Goodman and the grand community
  • Richard Hugo
  • David Ignatow
  • Tom McGrath is harvesting the snow
  • The blues as poetry
  • Mystery and expressiveness
  • Duncan's dream
  • What does organic mean
  • Lear
  • Emily Dickinson's unexpectedness
  • Essays for Wendell
  • James Laughlin
  • The nature of art
  • Further note on Lear
  • God sniffed and said.