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The Work of Poetry Hardback - 1997

by John Hollander

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New and classic essays by one of America's most distinguished contemporary poet-critics, The Work of Poetry surveys an extraordinary range of poets, from Dante to May Swenson, and George Meredith to Marianne Moore, as well as works from the Psalms to A Child's Garden of Verses. By turns generous and uncompromising, Hollander champions the enduring force of poetry against the incursion of fashionable writing. This is an elegant, uncompromising affirmation of the extraordinary powers of poetic imagination from a poet whose poems have been hailed by J.D. McClatchy as "ways of thinking on paper."

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  • Title The Work of Poetry
  • Author John Hollander
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, New York
  • Publication date 1997-10-03
  • ISBN 9780231108966 / 0231108966
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.04 x 5.98 x 0.68 in (22.96 x 15.19 x 1.73 cm)
  • Reading level 1450
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects Poetics, Poetry - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97-10041
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808.1

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 10/01/1997, Page 1505
  • Library Journal, 12/01/1997, Page 106
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/15/1997, Page 60
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