On Poets and Poetry by William H. Pritchard
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Description William Pritchard's collection of essays and reviews on poets and poetry ranges from Dryden and Milton through the major American and British poets of the last century.
Publisher Description
William Pritchardu2019s collection of essays and reviews on poets and poetry ranges from Dryden and Milton through the major American and British poets of the last century. One of them, Philip Larkin, answered an intervieweru2019s question about what he had learned from his study of other poets by snapping back, u201cOh, for Christu2019s sake, one doesnu2019t study poets! You read them, and think: Thatu2019s marvelous; how is it done?u201d Although Pritchard has been talking with students about poets for more than fifty years, his practice in writing has Larkinu2019s question in mind: how to describe convincingly the way itu2019s done, the u201cmarvelousu201d creations of Tennyson, Hardy, Yeats, Robert Lowell, or Larkin himself. Pritchardu2019s aim throughout is to address not only academics but the larger, intelligent audience of non-specialist readers who look to poetry for the surprise that is central to all imaginative literature. Hugh Kenner, one of three twentieth-century critics of poetry treated in this book, once wrote that u201cthe chief requisite for criticism is not analytic skill but a trained sensibility.u201d William Pritchardu2019s sensibility has been trained in the practice of attending to a poetu2019s style and voice-of what Robert Frost once called u201cear-reading.u201d His endeavor is not to discover hidden, buried treasures (what the poem u201creally meansu201d) but to engage with instances of measured language as they reveal themselves, in both the u201ctimingu201d of individual poems and the historical time in which poets and poetry live.
Author Biography
William H. Pritchard is a professor of English at Amherst College. He has written biographical studies of Robert Frost, Randall Jarrell, and John Updike; a memoir, English Papers; and three collections of essays and reviews.
Details ISBN 080401115X ISBN-13 9780804011150 Title On Poets and Poetry Author William H. Pritchard Format Paperback Year 2009 Pages 352 Publisher Ohio University Press GE_Item_ID:161814124; About Us
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