On Love: Poems By Edward Hirsch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hirsch, Edward

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.

Summary:

"Life has to have the plenitude of art," Edward Hirsch affirms in his fifth volume of poems, On Love, which further establishes him as a major artist. From its opening epigraph by Thomas Hardy and an initiating prayer for transformation, On Love takes up the subjects of separateness and fusion, autonomy and blur. The initial progression of fifteen shapely and passionate lyrics (including a sonnet about the poet at seven, a villanelle about the loneliness of a pioneer woman on the prairie, and an elegy for Amy Clampitt) opens out into a sequence of meditations about love. These arresting love poems are spoken by a gallery of historical figures from Denis Diderot, Heinrich Heine, Charles Baudelaire, and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Gertrude Stein, Federico Garcia Lorca, Zora Neale Hurston, and Colette. Each anatomizes a different aspect of eros in poems uttered by a chorus of historical authorities that is also a lone lover's yearning voice. Personal, literary, On Love offers the most formally adept and moving poetry by the author Harold Bloom hails as utterly fresh, canonical, and necessary.

Contents:

Intro

Other Books By This Author

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Part - 1

Chapter 1 - Blue Hydrangea

Chapter 2 - The Poet at Seven

Chapter 3 - Ocean of Grass

Chapter 4 - Iowa Flora

Chapter 5 - American Summer

Chapter 6 - Days of 1968

Chapter 7 - The Burning of the Midnight Lamp

Chapter 8 - Orphic Rites

Chapter 9 - The Unnaming

Chapter 10 - Hotel Window

Chapter 11 - Idea of the Holy

Chapter 12 - Two (Scholarly) Love Poems

Chapter 13 - A Painting of Pan

Chapter 14 - A Fundamentalist

Chapter 15 - Husband and Wife

Part 2: ON LOVE

Chapter 16 - Prologue

Chapter 17 - Denis Diderot

Chapter 18 - Giacomo Leopardi

Chapter 19 - Heinrich Heine

Chapter 20 - Charles Baudelaire

Chapter 21 - Margaret Fuller

Chapter 22 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Chapter 23 - George Meredith

Chapter 24 - Lafcadio Hearn

Chapter 25 - Oscar Wilde

Chapter 26 - Tristan Tzara

Chapter 27 - Guillaume Apollinaire

Chapter 28 - Milena Jesenská

Chapter 29 - D. H. Lawrence

Chapter 30 - H. D.

Chapter 31 - Federico García Lorca

Chapter 32 - Robert Desnos

Chapter 33 - Gertrude Stein

Chapter 34 - Dr. X

Chapter 35 - Bertolt Brecht

Chapter 36 - Marina Tsvetaeva

Chapter 37 - Zora Neale Hurston

Chapter 38 - Oscar Ginsburg

Chapter 39 - Paul Valéry

Chapter 40 - Colette

A Note About the Author

Copyright.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

0-307-55875-4

1-299-14576-0

OCLC:

842964268