Argument & song : sources & silences in poetry / Stanley Plumly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plumly, Stanley.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Physical Description:

322 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Argument and song

Place of Publication:

New York : Hansel Books, [2003]

Summary:

Stanley Plumly is one of his generation's important poets. He was born in Barnesville, Ohio, in 1939, and grew up in the lumber and farming regions of Virginia and Ohio. Writing in the Atlantic, Peter Davison said of his work, "Plumly's rich, dense poems give off a special fragrance, the incense of the English Romantic movement mingling with forest odors from the Old Northwest Territory between the Mississippi, the Ohio, and the Great Lakes." This volume collects fifteen of Plumly's essays on poetry and art, including the seminal "Chapter and Verse," "Sentimental Forms," and "The Abrupt Edge." Meditating on poems by Keats, Stevens, James Wright, Ploth, and Matthews, on Emily Bronete's prose, and paintings by Whistler, Plumly returns again and again to essential matters: the impulses, occasions, and places out of which art arises and the forms by which imagination gives it shape.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1590510763

OCLC:

51799400