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From: Nation[(essay date 18 November 2002) In the following review of the posthumously published Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth, Palattella offers an overview of Rexroth's life and work, tracing his development as a poet decade...
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From: Boulevard[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Zaller discusses Rexroth’s The Dragon and the Unicorn as an homage to Dante’s Inferno (circa 1307).] Pound’s Cantos are generally recognized as the most sustained homage to...
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From: Parnassus[(essay date Fall 1993) In the following essay, Barber provides analysis of Rexroth's poetry and literary development. According to Barber, "however boldly his personal history carries the impress of beatnik San...
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From: Revolutionary Rexroth: Poet of East-West Wisdom[(essay date 1986) In the following excerpt, Gibson offers an overview of Rexroth's major volumes of poetry noting the change in focus from the political concerns of his revolutionary period to the serenity of his later...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 52, Issue 2-4) Peer-Reviewed"Both in my life and work I have constantly striven to embody a perfectly definite program," the twenty-five-year-old Kenneth Rexroth wrote to Louis Zukofsky in early 1931. The self-possession and sheer intellectual...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 52, Issue 2-4) Peer-ReviewedIn 1959, I was hip. On the Road had put me on the road a couple of years earlier, when I was fourteen and caught a freight train bound for who-knows-where. It was leaving Utah, and that was good enough for me. I huddled...
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From: Updating the Literary West[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, O'Grady discusses Rexroth's decision to leave the Midwest for the West Coast as a young man and the profound effect that decision had on his development as a poet and essayist.]...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Kenneth Rexroth must now be counted among the last of a distinguished and vanishing rank of writers in America, the true man of letters. He was acutely perceptive as a literary critic and historian; he was an active...
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From: The Literary Review[In this excerpt, Gutierrez discusses Rexroth's nature poetry.] “The clarity of purposively realized objectivity is the most supernatural of all visions.” Kenneth Rexroth, Introduction to D.H. Lawrence's Selected...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 52, Issue 2-4) Peer-ReviewedIn early 1960 the San Francisco Examiner (a Hearst newspaper) offered Kenneth Rexroth a job writing a weekly column. He accepted. By May 1961 the column had proved popular enough that he was asked to do two and...
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From: Poetry[In his review of In Defense of the Earth and One Hundred Poems from the Chinese, Williams defends Rexroth's unpoetic meter and diction, and lavishly praises his translations.] The technical problem of what to do with...
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From: Explicator[(essay date summer 1998) In the following essay, Zaidi offers a brief discussion of Rexroth's translation of the eighth-century Chinese poem, suggesting that Rexroth's approach to arranging the poem's images was similar...
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From: College Literature[(essay date spring 2005) In the following essay, Johnston examines Rexroth's influence on the poetry of the 1950s Beat movement.] As early as the 1940s, the writers of the Beat generation were starting to articulate...
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From: Ohio Review[(essay date 1976) In the following essay, Parkinson discusses the poetry and literary accomplishment of Rexroth through examination of The Phoenix and the Tortoise. According to Parkinson, "To Rexroth poetry envisions...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 52, Issue 2-4) Peer-ReviewedThere are two or three books of poetry in English that I reach to with a hesitant hand, as I would to some old jewel box I am hardly worthy of. One of those is Leaves of Grass; another is Creeley's For Love; and another...
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From:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 33, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn San Francisco also began the now fabulously successful oral presentation of poetry. For years, in fact from long before the war, there have been more poetry readings every week in San Francisco than I for one have...
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 5, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedInspired by the poetic views of Ezra Pound and the opinions about the methods coping with Chinese and Western theories which is proposed by Mr. Zhang Longxi, Professor Zheng Yanhong takes a specific view both on the...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 52, Issue 2-4) Peer-ReviewedIn an extraordinary essay, "Art and Time," the psychologist Erich Neumann makes a capital point which the sensible mind recognizes as true, but from which the critical mind recoils as from a bane, its implications are...
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From: North Dakota Quarterly[(essay date spring 1996) In the following essay, Gutierrez discusses Rexroth's 1952 book-length travel poem, The Dragon and the Unicorn, inspired by Rexroth's trips in America and Europe during the late 1940s. The...
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From: The Relevance of Rexroth[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, Knabb provides biographical information about Rexroth—discussing his tumultuous childhood, his move to San Francisco, his involvement with the Beats and experimental poetry, his...