The Catbird's Song: Prose Pieces, 1963-1995Harcourt Brace, 1997 - 242 páginas The Catbird's Song is a selection of prose pieces, on a variety of topics, by one of the most distinguished poets and translators of our times, Richard Wilbur. These lectures, letters, reviews, addresses, prefaces, and interviews-what Wilbur calls the "prose by-products of a poet's life"-not only reveal the ideas and concerns that inform his remarkable oeuvre but also offer fresh takes on the works and lives of poets we thought we knew, poets we ought to know, and much more. Here, then, are his appreciations of Poe, Milton, Tennyson, and Longfellow; paeans to his contemporaries Elizabeth Bishop, Mae Swenson, and John Ciardi; an introduction to the work of the neglected poet Witter Bynner; his comments on some of his own poems; and thoughts on the art of translation. Throughout all, Wilbur's voice resonates with clarity, reason, and authority. |
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... birds in a horse's skull , and bees in a lion's carcass — are similar acts of imagination , and they are alike in being ... bird featherless Flew from Paradise , Pitched on the castle wall ; Along came Lord Landless , Took it up handless ...
... birds in a horse's skull , and bees in a lion's carcass — are similar acts of imagination , and they are alike in being ... bird featherless Flew from Paradise , Pitched on the castle wall ; Along came Lord Landless , Took it up handless ...
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... bird can't be a bird , because a bird has feathers . What we have , perhaps , is something white that's like a bird . How could it be like a bird ? It could be like a bird if it flew . If this white thing flew from Paradise , would it ...
... bird can't be a bird , because a bird has feathers . What we have , perhaps , is something white that's like a bird . How could it be like a bird ? It could be like a bird if it flew . If this white thing flew from Paradise , would it ...
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... birds— But like birds of only a note or two , Like persons of few words . And , O my shoes , how hard it is To tell the ... bird song to poetry , is odd but plausible enough ; it is not like Bryant's occasional wrenching of a moral from ...
... birds— But like birds of only a note or two , Like persons of few words . And , O my shoes , how hard it is To tell the ... bird song to poetry , is odd but plausible enough ; it is not like Bryant's occasional wrenching of a moral from ...
Contenido
Poe and the Art of Suggestion | 7 |
Longfellow | 26 |
The Persistence of Riddles | 32 |
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Términos y frases comunes
American answer appear asked beauty become begins bird Bynner called clear close continually course critic dark death described dream Earth effect Eleonora English enigma example experience expression fact feel figure final give given hand hear heart heaven human idea imaginative John kind knowledge language later leaves less letter light lines living look lyric matter mean memory mind nature never notes object once passion perhaps plays pleasure Poe's poem poet poet's poetic poetry possible present questions reader reason rhyme riddle seems seen sense Song sort soul sound speaks spirit story suggestion sure tells things thought translation trees turn Ulysses verse voice whole wish writing written wrote