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Lädt ... Lives of the Modern Poets (1981. Auflage)von William H. Pritchard (Autor)
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William H. Pritchard's study of Hardy, Yeats, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Frost, Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Hart Crane, and William Carlos Williams has been considered a classic ever since original publication in 1980. Readable, accessible, and focused on poems, it is criticism at its best, unaffected by particular theoretical trends. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Hardy, Robinson, Yeats, Eliot all reward reading for Tone of Voice. Pritchard calls his Frost chapter, "Elevated Play," and his Eliot chapter, some form of amusement. I find his analysis particularly helpful in reading Hardy, a poet who needs a modern helper because of his grim fatalism, his Dorset grit. Turns out, there's an element of play and of distance in this. Having lived in Dorset off and on over the years, and having visited the Hardy sites--birthplace, Max Gate, etc--I do not find my understanding of his verse greatly increased. But reading Pritchard, I do.
So it may be said for most of the poets included here, which makes this an essential book for one's shelf. The great terror of English bookshleves, H Bloom, does not have the patience or the ear to reveal the heart of these poets. (In his books, one often encounters Hardy or Blake explicating Bloom.) Though, that said, I must appreciate Bloom's psycho-literary reading of Lucretius's "clinamen" (famous now a s "swerve") which is much more convincing, and useful, than Greenblatt's Lucretius as inventer of the modern. You may as well claim Epictetus--a thoroughly modern character, including his handicap. ( )