Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry
By W.N. Herbert.
Description
A judicious and comprehensive selection of 77 American, British, and Irish manifestoes by some of modern poetry's finest practitioners. Opening with Pound, Yeats, and Eliot, the book moves through such key figures as Auden, Hughes, Stevie Smith, Dylan Thomas, Hughes, Heaney, Boland, and McGuckian. American poets are richly represented with pieces by Frost, Williams, O'Hara, Jarrell, Lowell, Bishop, Zukofsky, Plath, Creeley, Baraka, and others. Poetic issues are then brought fully up to date with more than thirty specially commissioned statements from such contemporary poets as Mot...
ISBN(s)
1852245158, 9781852245153
