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35, John Hollander. John Hollander is one of our most resourceful and prolific men of letters.

35, John Hollander

Over the past twenty-five years he has published more than a dozen books of poetry. The first of them, A Crackling of Thorns, was chosen by W. H. Auden in 1958 for the Yale Series of Younger Poets; the most important of them is Spectral Emanations: New and Selected Poems, published in 1978; and the most recent—it coincides with his winning the Bollingen Prize—is Powers of Thirteen, which appeared in 1983. He has also written three books of literary criticism and three books for children; edited several anthologies and textbooks; is the author of articles about artists from Thomas Cole to Saul Steinberg; and has devised libretti set to music by Milton Babbitt, George Perle, and Hugo Weisgall.

This interview was conducted in a brick neo-Georgian house in New Haven, on a handsome street just far enough away from the university for there to be large shade trees and comfortable distances between neighbors. Such as? Writing About Poetry. Summary: This section covers the basics of how to write about poetry.

Writing About Poetry

Including why it is done, what you should know, and what you can write about. Contributors:Purdue OWLLast Edited: 2010-04-21 08:27:54 Writing about poetry can be one of the most demanding tasks that many students face in a literature class. Poetry, by its very nature, makes demands on a writer who attempts to analyze it that other forms of literature do not. What's the Point? In order to write effectively about poetry, one needs a clear idea of what the point of writing about poetry is. So why would your teacher give you such an assignment? To help you learn to make a text-based argument. What Should I Know about Writing about Poetry? Most importantly, you should realize that a paper that you write about a poem or poems is an argument. Ballet Fantastique, Academy & Chamber Ensemble, Eugene, Oregon. Gallery event (Woden Photo) Internships Join Ballet Fantastique’s internship program!

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Professor Langdon Hammer, Professor of English, Chair, Department of English Description This course covers the body of modern poetry, its characteristic techniques, concerns, and major practitioners.

Modern Poetry

The authors discussed range from Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, to Stevens, Moore, Bishop, and Frost with additional lectures on the poetry of World War One, Imagism, and the Harlem Renaissance. Diverse methods of literary criticism are employed, such as historical, biographical, and gender criticism. Texts.

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