A Test of Poetry
By juxtaposing several translations of the same passage from Homer; an elegy from Ovid and lines from Herrick that read like an adaptation of Ovid; or a 15th-century poem about a rooster and a contemporary poem about white chickens, Louis Zukofsky has established a means for judging the values of poetic writing.
A wonderful education for the fledgling poet, this handbook, first published in 1948, is the best elucidation of Zukofsky's "objectivist" premises for recognizing value in specific instances of poetry.
- Author
- Louis Zukofsky, Robert Creeley
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 178
- Publisher
- Wesleyan
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780819564023
- Genres
- poetry
- Release date
- 2000
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