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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Página 48
... speaks in his Rhetoric of this pattern of surprise , delay , and excited recognition , observing that meta- phor enlivens language by deceiving our expectations . The reader , he says , " who expected something quite different , is all ...
... speaks in his Rhetoric of this pattern of surprise , delay , and excited recognition , observing that meta- phor enlivens language by deceiving our expectations . The reader , he says , " who expected something quite different , is all ...
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... speaks in italics of fear and pain . But in fact her poems , for all their objectivity , are much involved in what they see : though she sel- dom protests , or specifies her emotions , her work is full of an implicit compassion , and ...
... speaks in italics of fear and pain . But in fact her poems , for all their objectivity , are much involved in what they see : though she sel- dom protests , or specifies her emotions , her work is full of an implicit compassion , and ...
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... speaks of " the barren Plains / Of Sericana , where Chineses drive / With Sails and Wind thir cany Waggons light , " we are given at least as much magic as information , the poet is prone to the illusion that he can make or unmake the ...
... speaks of " the barren Plains / Of Sericana , where Chineses drive / With Sails and Wind thir cany Waggons light , " we are given at least as much magic as information , the poet is prone to the illusion that he can make or unmake the ...
Contenido
Poe and the Art of Suggestion | 7 |
Longfellow | 26 |
The Persistence of Riddles | 32 |
Derechos de autor | |
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aesthetic American Annabel Lee answer anthology Arvin asked beauty begins Beloved Stranger bird Chapala Chinese Chinese poetry couplets D. H. Lawrence dark death dream Dupin Eleonora Elizabeth Bishop English enigma essay experience fact feel forever Grenstone Poems hear heart heaven Il Penseroso imaginative Indian Earth Israfel Jade Mountain John John Ciardi kind L'Allegro language Ligeia lines literary living Longfellow look lyric mean memory metaphor Milton's mind Misanthrope Molière Molière's narrator nature never once passion Penseroso plays pleasure Poe's poem poem's poet poet's poetic poetry prose reader rhyme Richard Wilbur riddle RW Yes seems sense sheep Song sonnet sort soul sound speaks Spectra spirit stanza story sure Sylvia Symphosius Tartuffe Tell-Tale Heart tells Tennyson things thought tions translation trees Ulysses verse voice W. H. Auden Whitman winter Witter Bynner words writing wrote