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How poets see the world : the art of description in contemporary poetry / Willard Spiegelman.
Van Pelt Library PS310.V57 S67 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spiegelman, Willard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- Vision in literature.
- Art and literature--United States.
- Art and literature.
- Visual perception in literature.
- Landscapes in literature.
- Description (Rhetoric).
- Nature in literature.
- Art in literature.
- Ekphrasis.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 238 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Contents:
- "The way things look each day" : poetry, description, nature
- "Just looking" : Charles Tomlinson and the "labour of observation"
- What to make of an augmented thing : Amy Clampitt's syntactic dramas
- Charles Wright and "the metaphysics of the quotidian"
- "A space for boundless revery" : varieties of ekphrastic experience
- John Ashbery's haunted landscapes
- Jorie Graham's "new way of looking".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195174917
- OCLC:
- 55615921
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