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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 29, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSpeak, grief, and let me know. Yes, I have your latest address, but all I want to know is how long you're staying here. No, I don't want to know where you'll go--just when. 1 A sunny country afternoon: the smell of...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 31, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA thought from nowhere last night just as sleep drew me under: "I woke up this morning and saw your face." Lost mother, lost son, living beloved- are you now all one? In the dream-night, later, across the...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 29, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCarlo Collodi's 'The Adventures of Pinocchio: Tale of a Puppet,' Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and Mark Twain's 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' all conclude with the loss of childhood. The three...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 31, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCriticisms on Irish poets and a comparison of their works from a non-Irish poet are presented. The poems focus on the worth of the Irish language in poetry and the dramatic changes that have occurred in Irish poetry for...
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From: Southern Review[(essay date July 1993) In the following essay, Rosenthal compares three works--Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Collodi's The Adventures of...
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From: Anne Sexton: Telling the Tale[(essay date 1967) In the following excerpt, Rosenthal insists on reading Sexton as an artist, not as a person consumed by mental illness. He notes that many of Sexton's poems find "appropriate music" and compares them...
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From: Ploughshares[(review date Fall 1996) In the following review, Rosenthal offers a favorable assessment of The Dual Tradition.] Irish poetry has had a long, trauma-beset journey. In his book The Dual Tradition: An Essay on Poetry...
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From: The NationThe Irish poet John Montague is one of the most interesting now writing in English. He tells a story, paints a picture, evokes an atmosphere, suggests the complexities and torments of adult love and marriage—all in the...
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From: The Nation[Rosenthal is an American poet, critic, and editor. Among his most influential studies are The Modern Poets (1960) and The New Poets (1967), which analyze the verse of some of the most important poets of the twentieth...
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From: The New Poets: American and British Poetry Since World War[(essay date 1967) In the excerpt below, Rosenthal highlights those of Kavanagh's poems that deal with the subject of disillusionment.] The lively-spirited Patrick Kavanagh has in his serious poetry become at once...
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From: The Nation[Rosenthal is an American poet, critic, and editor. Rosenthal's critical method is marked by its independence from any particular school of criticism and by its emphasis on individual poems, which the critic attempts to...
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From: Southern Review[(essay date winter 1985) In the following essay, Rosenthal offers a mixed review of Riding's poetry, contending that "her writing is full of promises but preserved, as it were, in ambiguities, ironies, and...
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From: The Nation[(review date 23 February 1957) In the following review, Rosenthal finds some fault with Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems but considers his poetry original.] The two most striking pieces in Allen Ginsberg's pamphlet...