Essays on poetry / by Ralph J. Mills, Jr. ; introduction by Michael Anania.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mills, Ralph J.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

xii, 458 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[Normal, Ill.] : Dalkey Archive Press, 2003.

Summary:

Taken from throughout Mills's career, the essays collected in this volume delve into the work of such influential writers as Wallace Stevens, Denise Levertov, Samuel Beckett, Galway Kinnell, Edith Sitwell, Theodore Roethke, Karl Shapiro, Richard Wilbur, Isabella Gardener, James Wright, David Ignatow, Donald Hall, Robert Bly, Philip Levine, and Stanley Kunitz. Mills examines how the personal element informs the works of these writers and enables them "to speak to us, without impediment, from the deep center of a personal engagement with existence."

Contents:

1. Creation's Very Self: On the Personal Element in Recent American Poetry 3

2. Wallace Stevens: The Image of the Rock 40

3. The Poetic Roles of Edith Sitwell 55

4. The Visionary Poetry of Kathleen Raine 86

5. Stanley Kunitz 129

6. Theodore Roethke 141

7. Brother Antoninus (William Everson) 159

8. Karl Shapiro 171

9. Isabella Gardner 186

10. Richard Wilbur 195

11. Denise Levertov 207

12. James Wright 222

13. Char and Michaux: Magicians of Insecurity 241

14. Samuel Beckett's Man 256

15. Earth Hard: David Ignatow's Poetry 261

16. A Reading of Galway Kinnell 314

17. Donald Hall's Poetry 360

18. "The Body with the Lamp Lit Inside": Robert Bly's New Poems 407

19. "Of Energy Compacted and Whirling": Robert Bly's Recent Prose Poems 417

20. Everything That's Luminous 439

21. "The True and Earthy Prayer": Philip Levine's Poetry 447.

ISBN:

1564782948

1564782956

OCLC:

51258773