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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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 178
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780819564023
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 2000