The Work of Poetry
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hollander, John, PUBLISHER: Columbia University Press, New and classic essays by one ong>ofong> America's most distinguished contemporary poet-critics, "ong>Theong> ong>Workong> ong>ofong> Poetry" surveys an extraordinary range ong>ofong> poets, from Dante to May Swenson, and George Meredith to Marianne Moore, as well as ong>workong>s from ong>theong> Psalms to "A Child's Garden ong>ofong> Verses." By turns generous and uncompromising, Hollander champions ong>theong> enduring force ong>ofong> poetry against ong>theong> incursion ong>ofong> fashionable writing. This is an elegant, uncompromising affirmation ong>ofong> ong>theong> extraordinary powers ong>ofong> poetic imagination from a poet whose poems have been hailed by J.D. McClatchy as "ways ong>ofong> thinking on paper."