Essay on rime : with Trial of a poet / Karl Shapiro ; edited with an afterword by Robert Phillips ; foreword by David Lehman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shapiro, Karl, 1913-2000.

Contributor:

Phillips, Robert, 1938-2022.

Lehman, David, 1948-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Poets on poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetics.

American poetry--History and criticism.

American poetry.

English poetry--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 117 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

Essay on rime ; with, Trial of a poet

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2003]

Summary:

Karl Shapiro wrote Essay on Rime, a 2072-line blank-verse meditation on "the treble confusion / in modern rime," in 1945, while serving a stint with the U.S. Army in the South Pacific. Rich in both insight and example, Essay on Rime discusses subjects ranging from prosody and idiom to Freud and Marxism, and confronts the particular approaches of such poets as W. H. Auden, Andrew Marvell, and Walt Whitman. Trial of a Poet, also included here, was inspired by Shapiro's service on the jury that selected Ezra Pound as the winner of the first Bollingen Prize in Poetry, and gives voice to Shapiro's moral objection to awarding the prize to Pound.

Contents:

1 The Confusion in Prosody 9

2 The Confusion in Language 29

3 The Confusion in Belief 53.

Notes:

"Published by the University of Michigan Press 2003."

"'Essay on Rime' previously published by Reynal & Hitchcock 1945. Portions of 'Trial of a Poet' previously published by Reynal & Hitchcock 1947."

Publisher's advertisements: [1] p. at end.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 116-117).

Contains:

Shapiro, Karl, 1913-2000. Trial of a poet.

Trial of a poet.

ISBN:

0472098136

047206813X

OCLC:

50503248