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The poetry wreck : selected essays, 1950-1970

Title
The poetry wreck : selected essays, 1950-1970 / Karl Shapiro.
Author
Shapiro, Karl, 1913-2000
Publication
  • New York : Random House, [1975]
  • ©1975

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Additional Authors
  • Random House (Firm), publisher.
  • Random House Library (Columbia University. Libraries) NNC
Description
xvii, 365 pages; 22 cm
Uniform Title
Essays. Selections
Alternative Title
Essays.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
  • English poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
  • American poetry
  • English poetry
Genre/Form
  • Essays
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Essays.
Note
  • Rare Book copy: In original dust jacket.
Contents
T.S. Eliot: the death of literary judgment -- Ezra Pound: the scapegoat of modern poetry -- W.B. Yeats: trial by culture -- The retreat of W.H. Auden -- William Carlos Williams: the truce contemporary -- Dylan Thomas -- The greatest living Patagonian -- The decolonization of American literature -- Is poetry an American art? -- The true artificer -- The death of Randall Jarrell -- The career of the poem -- American poet? -- The poetry wreck.
ISBN
  • 0394493737
  • 9780394493732
LCCN
74022205
OCLC
  • ocm01085762
  • 1085762
  • SCSB-2434724
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries