The Poet's Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art

"This anthology brings together essays by 20th-century poets on their own art: some concern themselves with its deep sources and ultimate justifications; others deal with technique, controversies among schools, the experience behind particular poems. The great Modernists of most countries are presented here — Paul Valéry, Federico García Lorca, Boris Pasternak, Fernando Pessoa, Eugenio Montale, Wallace Stevens — as are a range of younger, less eminent figures from the English-speaking world: Seamus Heaney, Denise Levertov, Wendell Berry... The reader will find here a lively debate over the individualistic and the communal ends served by poetry, and over other issues that divide poets: inspiration and craft; the use or the condemnation of science; traditional and 'organic' form." — Alan Williamson, New York Times Book Review

• Author
• Reginald Gibbons

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 320

• Publisher
• University of Chicago Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780226290546

• Genres
• poetry, writing, anthologies, essays

• Release date
• 1989