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How poets see the world : the art of description in contemporary poetry

Title
How poets see the world : the art of description in contemporary poetry / Willard Spiegelman.
Author
Spiegelman, Willard.
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

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xi, 238 p.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Vision in literature
  • Description (Rhetoric) > History > 20th century
  • Art and literature > United States
  • Visual perception in literature
  • Landscapes in literature
  • Nature in literature
  • Art in literature
  • Ekphrasis
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-217) and index.
Contents
The way things look each day : how poets see the world -- Just looking : Charles Tomlinson and the "labour of observation" -- What to make of an augmented thing : Amy Clampitt's syntactic dramas -- Charles Wright and "the metaphysics of the quotidian" -- A space for boundless revery : varieties of ekphrastic experience -- John Ashbery's haunted landscapes -- Jorie Graham's "new way of looking".
Call Number
JFE 05-9562
ISBN
0195174917 (acid-free paper)
LCCN
  • 2004012519
  • 9780195174915
OCLC
55615921
Author
Spiegelman, Willard.
Title
How poets see the world : the art of description in contemporary poetry / Willard Spiegelman.
Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-217) and index.
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9780195174915
Research Call Number
JFE 05-9562
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