One of the Dangerous Trades: Essays on the Work and Workings of PoetryAn examination of the poet's place in society as seen by a poet who is also a publisher. |
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... poet than other editors . ” I wonder unmercifully if it may not do me justice . On a platform , reading poems to an ... poetic friendships - Wordsworth and Coleridge , Robert Frost and Edward Thomas , Theodore Roethke and Stanley Kunitz ...
... poet than other editors . ” I wonder unmercifully if it may not do me justice . On a platform , reading poems to an ... poetic friendships - Wordsworth and Coleridge , Robert Frost and Edward Thomas , Theodore Roethke and Stanley Kunitz ...
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... poet survives . If you set yourself up as a poetic entrepreneur , you will most likely find that , literally and figuratively , poetry is an imaginary busi- ness , with no market for the product . No wonder that , though every sensitive ...
... poet survives . If you set yourself up as a poetic entrepreneur , you will most likely find that , literally and figuratively , poetry is an imaginary busi- ness , with no market for the product . No wonder that , though every sensitive ...
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... poets accepted resi- dence in the university , where poetry is assembled in work- shops that became connected to one another by a communi- cations network of itinerant readaloud poets who provided instant oral derniers cris of poetic ...
... poets accepted resi- dence in the university , where poetry is assembled in work- shops that became connected to one another by a communi- cations network of itinerant readaloud poets who provided instant oral derniers cris of poetic ...
Contents
One of the Dangerous Trades | 3 |
The Great Predicament of Poetry | 11 |
The Refuge of the Present Tense | 17 |
Copyright | |
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