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Karl Shapiro (1913–2000)

Autor von Modern American and Modern British Poetry

92+ Werke 950 Mitglieder 9 Rezensionen Lieblingsautor von 3 Lesern

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Karl Shapiro won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945 for V-Letter and Other Poems (1944). Born in Baltimore, he attended the University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins University. After service in the army, he was appointed consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress in 1946 and joined the faculty of mehr anzeigen Johns Hopkins. There he taught writing courses until his resignation in 1950 to become editor, for a period, of Poetry. Shapiro is an accomplished poet in a wide variety of styles. Like others of his generation, his early work displays a concern with life and institutions of modern society. His later work included a series of bold love poems, The White-Haired Lover (1968). Typical of critics' response to Shapiro is Ralph J. Mills, Jr.'s assessment of The Bourgeois Poet (1964), in which Shapiro "breaks with accepted metrical patterns to attempt a poetry of direct speech. . . ."The Bourgeois Poet' definitely has about it the air of a new imaginative release. Irony and social criticism are still there, but autobiography, invective, heavy doses of sexuality. . . and an occasional prophetic note are now blended together" (Contemporary American Poetry). (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Werke von Karl Shapiro

Modern American and Modern British Poetry (1919) — Herausgeber — 307 Exemplare
Karl Shapiro: Selected Poems (2003) 109 Exemplare
A Prosody Handbook (1965) 56 Exemplare
American poetry (1960) 51 Exemplare
V-Letter and Other Poems (1944) 27 Exemplare
Essay on rime (1945) 23 Exemplare
Selected poems (1968) 22 Exemplare
Prose keys to modern poetry (1962) 22 Exemplare
Poems of a Jew (1958) 22 Exemplare
The bourgeois poet (1964) 21 Exemplare
In Defense of Ignorance (1960) 17 Exemplare
Edsel (1656) 17 Exemplare
New & Selected Poems, 1940-1986 (1987) 14 Exemplare
Person, place and thing (1944) 13 Exemplare
Adult Bookstore (1976) 10 Exemplare
Collected poems 1940-1978 (1978) 9 Exemplare
Poems, 1940-1953 (1940) 9 Exemplare
Randall Jarrell, (1967) 9 Exemplare
Reports of My Death (1990) 7 Exemplare
The Younger Son (1988) 7 Exemplare
Creative Glut: Selected Essays (2004) 7 Exemplare
Beyond criticism (1953) 6 Exemplare
White-haired lover (1968) 5 Exemplare
A Primer for Poets (1953) 5 Exemplare
Coda: Last Poems (2008) 4 Exemplare
Old Horsefly, The (1992) 3 Exemplare
Poetry Magazine Vol. 86 No. 3, June 1955 — Herausgeber — 2 Exemplare
The place of love 1 Exemplar
To Abolish Children (1968) 1 Exemplar
The House 1 Exemplar
Trial of a Poet (2003) 1 Exemplar
Auto Wreck {poem} 1 Exemplar
The place of love 1 Exemplar
Poems 1 Exemplar

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Wendekreis des Krebses (1934) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben8,824 Exemplare
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben919 Exemplare
A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (1954) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben443 Exemplare
The Art of Losing (2010) — Mitwirkender — 199 Exemplare
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Mitwirkender — 162 Exemplare
Poets of World War II (2003) — Mitwirkender — 133 Exemplare
A Comprehensive Anthology of American Poetry (1929) — Mitwirkender — 129 Exemplare
The Anarchists (1964) — Mitwirkender — 112 Exemplare
Twentieth-Century American Poetry (1777) — Mitwirkender — 97 Exemplare

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This was a treasured book of Ed’s. I had it rebound for him while I was at the Athenaeum.
 
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Eurekas | 3 weitere Rezensionen | May 4, 2023 |
Modern American & Modern British Poetry, 1955, ed. Louis Untermeyer. I doubt that these poems could still be considered modern, but among them you will find timeless ideas and beauty. I especially like the story poems. Frost’s, The Witch of Coos, and E. A. Robinson’s, Mr. Flood’s Party. Individual lines like; “Mumbo-jumbo will hoo-doo you”, “but the rain is full of ghost’s tonight”, “human kind can not bear very much reality”, “Night or day, what’er befall / I must walk that desert land / Until I dare my fear and call / The lion out to lick my hand.”, “A snake came to my water-trough / On a hot, hot day” are a few of my favorites. Take this book to your local coffee shop and relax.… (mehr)
 
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drardavis | 3 weitere Rezensionen | Aug 1, 2019 |
I teach writing. I have read a lot of books about prosody but this is the one you want if you are interested in a full description of what a poem requires. By that I mean the full soundscape of this particular use of language and aesthetics. Karl Shapiro is the other author and contributed mightily but know this: there isn't any better introduction to the craft that fully rates the different contributions of sound and color and image than this. It is also beautifully written which is not necessarily what one can expect in a book on poetry. I will be using this as a handbook, wearing its pages well… (mehr)
 
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Hebephrene | Jan 4, 2017 |
Possibly the best collection of modern poetry in the English language.
 
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PendleHillLibrary | 3 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 6, 2016 |

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