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This work focuses on Robinson's response to and reaction against the historical events, personalities and tendencies of America from the time of his birth in the "Gilded Age" to the "New Deal". ... Read more

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A Must for Studying the "Great" Early Modern Poets
So you think the critics give unqualified adoration to our early moderns?Think again.Stanford, in elegant, tight, perfectly clear prose tells the story of the revolution in poetry at the opening of the 20th century from adifferent point of view, that of the Wintersian formalists.These are thefollowers and students of the great poet and critic Yvor Winters, whoseradically neo-classical views cause a storm of debate in the first half ofthe century.(See my reviews of Winters books at my amazon site.) Stanford incisively explores the poetry of five great poets and makes astrong case for the stature of Robinson and Winters -- can you believethat? -- above that of the divinely canonized threesome also studied here. You will never read Stevens (who's the best of the remaining three), Pound,or Eliot the same again after you have studied them carefully withStanford.This is a masterful work of literary criticism and one muchneeded in our chaotic times in the field of poetry.Moreover, it is astirring treatise on the value of poetry to life and thought, a commentthat would be the summit of praise coming from Yvor.I hope you'll givethis great book a try if you love poetry.It might change your wholeapproach to the art.It's not that Stanford will induce you to leave Eliotand Pound behind, but open you up to greater vistas in the high arts ofhuman language.Be sure to check out my other recommendations at myamazon.com personal site. ... Read more

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A tribute to one of America's foremost poets. The book is a comprehensive appraisal of all Robinson's work since his first slim volume of verse. The discussion of Robinson's ideas, men, plays, legends, and history is plentifully illustrated with selections from his verse.

THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY:Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College. ... Read more

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Examines the life of the American poet and presents some of his poems. ... Read more

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1926. A portrait of the poet Robinson, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry three times in the 1920's, a record exceeded only by Robert Frost. Here is an account of this fascinating man. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

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A unique collection of poems from three writers living under the shadow of the Civil War

Three great American poets, all of whom preferred the solitary life, and yet each responded, in very different ways, to the greatest social event of their times: the challenge of living in a country recovering from civil war. The selection from Melville aims to show the range of his shorter verse, from the public poet intensely concerned with the Civil War and its meaning for humanity, to the private poet, as he withdrew from the eyes of the world. Robinson's quintessential and much anthologised famous poems can be read set alongside the less widely-read pieces also included here. Tuckerman is a neglected poet, whose poems reflect his friendship with Tennyson and his grief for the loss of his wife. ... Read more

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Get this for the Tuckerman
Tuckerman is an intriguing, neglected poet (check out the Wikipedia article on him) whose works are to be found in reprints and somewhat pricey older collections The Complete Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman., though I see that a new selected poems is due out in April 2010 Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (The John Harvard Library).A decent sampling of his verse can be found in this Penguin Classics edition.I discovered him for myself last summer and I was pleasantly surprised how quickly and easily I was drawn into his art.

Into the Light
If you're toting up American poets of the 19th century, Dickinson gets one finger, Whitman another, but who's on third? A friend recently told me the smart money's on Tuckerman (Tuckerman?), and the only Tuckerman I could find is in this volume, wedged between the wet log of a poet that's Melville--lots of smoke and dramatic crackle, little flame--and E.A.R., who got enough laurel in his own life to really deserve space here. (There's also small connection with Melville and Tuckerman, born two years apart and both similarly neglected.)

Tuckerman was the laureate of autumnal gloom, with winter's blast just around the corner. He came to his melancholy honestly, losing an infant daughter, then his beloved wife in childbirth, after which Tuckerman withdrew to Greenfield, MA and let the Civil War and pretty much everything else roll past him. His poems are dense, knotty verbal contrivances that are a world away from the populist bounce of so many of his contemporaries; the subject matter's death-drenched and wrenching while staying this side of Goth. Penguin stuck out its neck on this one and I'm glad. On to Clarel ... ... Read more

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"Tell me what you're doing over here, John Gorham, Sighing hard and seeming to be sorry when you're not; Make me laugh or let me go now, for long faces in the moonlight Are a sign for me to say again a word that you forgot." ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. ... Read more

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she may scarcely bear the weight
Of her bewildering reward.
As one apart, immune, alone,
Or featured for the shining ones,
And like to none that she has known
Of other women's other sons, --
The firm fruition of her need,
He shines anointed; and he blurs
Her vision, till it seems indeed
A sacrilege to call him hers.
She fears a little for so much
Of what is best, and hardly dares
To think of him as one to touch
With aches, indignities, and cares;
She sees him rather at the goal,
Still shining; and her dream foretells
The proper shining of a soul
Where nothing ordinary dwells.
Perchance a canvass of the town
Would find him far from flags and shouts,
And leave him only the renown
Of many smiles and many doubts;
Perchance the crude and common tongue
Would havoc strangely with his worth;
But she, with innocence unwrung,
Would read his name around the earth.
And others, knowing how this youth

Table of Contents

FLAMMONDE 1; THE GIFT OJ!' GOD 8; THE CLISGING VINE 12; CASSANDRA 19; JOIIN GORHAM ? 23; STAFFORD'S CABIN 2B; HILLCREST 32; OLD KING COLE 36; BEN JONSON ENTERTAINS A MAN FROM STRATFORD 42; EROS TUBANNOS 67; OLD TRAILS 71; TIlE UNJ!'OBOIVEN 78; THEOPHILUS 83; VETEUAN SIRENS 85; SIEGE PERILOUS 87; ANOTHER DARK LADY 89; THE VOICE OJ!' AGE 91; TUE DARK HOUSE 94; [ ix]; THE POOR RELATION; THE BURNING BOOK; FRAGMENT; LISETTE AND EILEEN; LLEWELLYN AND THE TREK; BEWICK FINZER; BOKA1iDO ?; THE MAN AGAINST TUB SKY;

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