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Democracy, culture, and the voice of poetry / Robert Pinsky.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pinsky, Robert.
- Series:
- University Center for Human Values series
- The University Center for Human Values series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
- United States.
- Intellectual life.
- Democracy in literature.
- Culture in literature.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- x, 96 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- One of the country's most accomplished poets, Pinsky served two terms as America's Poet Laureate (1997-2000). Pinsky draws on his experiences and on sharp and elegant observations of individual poems to argue that expecting poetry to compete with show business is to mistake its greatest democratic strength--its intimate, human scale--as a weakness.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0691096171
- OCLC:
- 49421758
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