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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... close of " William Wilson , " the good and evil sides of one person are in conflict over a woman's honor and what it symbolizes . The absurdity to which I called your attention - Dupin's assertion that he knows what the Minister looks ...
... close of " William Wilson , " the good and evil sides of one person are in conflict over a woman's honor and what it symbolizes . The absurdity to which I called your attention - Dupin's assertion that he knows what the Minister looks ...
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... close to her opinion , and have led me to see that her fondness for it was based on a true affinity . “ Fairy - Land " is a charming dream - vision , written in a transparent style unusual for Poe ; at the same time , its weeping trees ...
... close to her opinion , and have led me to see that her fondness for it was based on a true affinity . “ Fairy - Land " is a charming dream - vision , written in a transparent style unusual for Poe ; at the same time , its weeping trees ...
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... close equivalent . I think that I would always go for the close equivalent in such a case . I like something that Jackson Mathews once said , when he was speaking well of my transla- tion of Tartuffe . Instead of describing it as word ...
... close equivalent . I think that I would always go for the close equivalent in such a case . I like something that Jackson Mathews once said , when he was speaking well of my transla- tion of Tartuffe . Instead of describing it as word ...
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Poe and the Art of Suggestion | 7 |
Longfellow | 26 |
The Persistence of Riddles | 32 |
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