| Description |
vi, 217 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Songs of a furtive self: Whitman -- State of the nation: American poetry -- 'A poet insufficiently himself'?: Bloom on Stevens -- The poetry of John Ashbery -- Moment after moment: Day by day by Robert Lowell -- Confidences: Delusions, etc. by John Berryman -- E.E. Cummings: Complete poems, 1910-1962; and Dreams in the mirror -A biograph of E.E. Cummings by Richard S. Kennedy -- Halycon structures: City without walls by W.H. Auden -- The flight of the disenchanter: Early Auden by Edward Mendelson -- The best of Betjeman: John Betjeman's Collected poems compiled by the Earl of Birkenhead; and Church poems by John Betjeman -- The last romantic: Philip Larkin -- Looking in on Pushkin -- A Petrograd apocalypse: The poet and the revolution, Aleksandr Blok's 'The twelve' by Sergei Hackel -- The secrets of Gogol: The creation of Nikolai Gogol by Donald Fanger -- The greatness of Akhmatova: Requiem and Poem without a hero translated by D.M. Thomas -- Two pieces on translating Mandelstam -- A poet's tragedy: Marina Tsvetaeva -- The novelist as pedagogue: Lectures on Russian literature by Vladimir Nabokov -- Canetti and power -- Czeslaw Milosz Emperor of the earth: modes of eccentric vision Return of the native -- Life studies: Vasko Popa, Collected poems, 1943-1976 |
| Analysis |
Literature to 1980 |
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Literature, to 1980 - Critical studies |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
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| LC no. |
83015222 |
| ISBN |
0521258286 |
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0521278457 (paperback) |
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