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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Anthologized in virtually every major collection of American poetry, "Thanatopsis" is William Cullen Bryant's most famous poem and is today considered a 19th-century American "classic." Begun when Bryant was not yet 18,...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )As poet, witness, prankster, storyteller, friend, lover, mother, heir to literary tradition, balladeer, lesbian, and fellow traveler, Marilyn Hacker has emerged as one of a handful of essential poets of the second half...
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From: Critical QuarterlyIn night when colours all to black are cast, Distinction lost, or gone down with the light; The eye a watch to inward senses plac'd, Not seeing, yet still having power of sight, Gives vain alarums to the inward sense,...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)In an editorial headnote in Letters, E. B. White refers to the "squibs and poems" that he began submitting to the New Yorker shortly after it was founded in 1925. He joined the staff of the magazine two years later and...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)When the strident red-headed imp invaded the prim Victorian drawing room gleefully shouting shocking indecencies and blasphemies in new and compelling poetic rhythms, many Victorians shuddered and drew back. Hardly since...
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From: Women's StudiesIn “Being Nobody Together: Duplicity, Identity and Women's Poetry,” Alicia Ostriker surveys the body of poetic emblems commonly used by American women poets to reflect the self-fragmentation the female suffers in her...
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From: His Günter Grass: The Writer in a Pluralist SocietyIn approaching Grass as a poet and a dramatist, it is extremely difficult to forget that Grass has gained pre-eminent recognition as a novelist: in what follows I have not attempted to do so. Certainly the most immediate...
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From: Papers on Language and Literature[(essay date Spring 1992) In the following essay, Géfin examines the aesthetic and ethical concerns behind Pound's ideogrammic method, particularly the use of Chinese pictographs and literary allusion in The Cantos.]...
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From: Prairie Schooner[(review date Fall 1985) Wright is an American poet and educator. In the following review, she finds in Oliver's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection both stunningly original and cliched elements.] This sixth volume of...
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From: The American Poetry Review[(essay date July/August 1997) In the following essay, Ostriker argues that while Ginsberg rejected elements of his Jewish heritage, it still influenced his writing.] I have reverenced Allen Ginsberg--man and poet--for...
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From: The Literary ReviewIn her first three books of poetry—Satan Says (1980), The Dead and the Living (1984), The Gold Cell (1989)—as well as recently published poems not collected into book form, Sharon Olds describes a dysfunctional family...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 1. )Commenting on poet James Merrill's early career, Richard Howard wrote in Alone with America that "the jealous voice of a man capable of no more than objets d'art addressing a man capable of an art transcending objects...
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From: Nine Contemporary Poets: A Critical Introduction[(essay date 1979) In the following excerpt, King chronicles Gunn's growth from a young egocentric individual to a more mature person who is able to respond to relationships with other people, as evidenced by his...
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From: The Ohio Review[(essay date 1987) In the following essay, Oliver discusses the mechanics of poetry and how length and tone variations can result in a wide range of effects.] 1. All manner of effects can be realized by the choices...
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From: African Literature Today[(essay date 1973) In the excerpt below, Izevbaye delineates the interplay of sources Okigbo employs in Heavensgate and Limits.] The year 1971 saw the publication by Heinemann Educational Books of Labyrinths with Path...
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From: Renascence[(review date Spring 1966) After an analysis of Ferlinghetti's style and subject matter, Butler suggests that Ferlinghetti has the talent and vision to rise above the restrictive label of "beat poet" and become a more...
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From: Books Abroad[An Argentine-born American educator and critic who specializes in Latin American literature, Alazraki is the author of Poetica y poesia de Pablo Neruda (1965). In the following essay, Alazraki examines the theme of...
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From: The Southern ReviewAbove all I was charmed in Auden by what to me, when I first read him, seemed the ultimate sophistication, which was not disillusion but instead minimal expectations. More exactly, it was the combination of unillusioned...
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From: The Virginia Quarterly Review[(review date Spring 1988) In the following excerpt, Harris describes the poems in The Gold Cell as “undeniably gripping,” but questions whether the emotional intensity of Olds's verse is merely sensationalistic.] A...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)The spirited presence of Robert Bly is felt throughout the realms of modern poetry and literary criticism; he emerged from the early 1960s as one of the more stubbornly independent and critical poets of his generation,...