The Catbird's Song: Prose Pieces, 1963-1995Harcourt Brace, 1997 - 242 Seiten 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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... look at my hand , " she says- I look at my hand and see it is also his and hers ; the pads of the fingers his , the wrists and knuckles hers . In the mirror my pugnacious eye and ear of an elf , his ; my tamer mouth and slant cheekbones ...
... look at my hand , " she says- I look at my hand and see it is also his and hers ; the pads of the fingers his , the wrists and knuckles hers . In the mirror my pugnacious eye and ear of an elf , his ; my tamer mouth and slant cheekbones ...
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... look the name or category of a thing for the thing itself . " Her poetry is , in fact , at war with names and designations , in- sofar as they can occlude our vision or foreclose our curiosity . God , she tells us in one of her poems ...
... look the name or category of a thing for the thing itself . " Her poetry is , in fact , at war with names and designations , in- sofar as they can occlude our vision or foreclose our curiosity . God , she tells us in one of her poems ...
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... look hard at the object , be limber in one's response to it , and rejoice at last in another creature's splendid ... looks out of a window and sees the cloudscape as a great parlor full of soft chairs and couches . She dreams of walking ...
... look hard at the object , be limber in one's response to it , and rejoice at last in another creature's splendid ... looks out of a window and sees the cloudscape as a great parlor full of soft chairs and couches . She dreams of walking ...
Inhalt
Poe and the Art of Suggestion | 7 |
Longfellow | 26 |
The Persistence of Riddles | 32 |
Urheberrecht | |
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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