Creative Glut Selected Essays

by Shapiro, Karl

• ISBN13: 9781566635578
• ISBN10: 1566635578
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-23
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee

Summary

In this sparkling collection edited by Robert Phillips, Shapiro's most trenchant writings on poerty, poets, and cultural matters are once again available.

Table of Contents

Poets and writers
T. S. Eliot : the death of literary judgment	p. 5
Ezra pound : the scapegoat of modern poetry	p. 24
W. B. Yeats : trial by culture	p. 43
The retreat of W. H. Auden	p. 65
William Carlos Williams : the true contemporary	p. 86
Dylan Thomas	p. 107
D. H. Lawrence : the first white aboriginal	p. 119
Henry Miller : the greatest living author	p. 133
The death of Randall Jarrell	p. 154
Poetry and protests
Is poetry an American art?	p. 181
The true artificer	p. 197
The career of the poem	p. 214
American poet?	p. 231
The poetry wreck	p. 253
What the poet knows	p. 263
The decolonization of American literature	p. 279
The Jewish writer in America	p. 296
The critic in spite of himself	p. 306
To abolish children	p. 330
To revive anarchism	p. 340
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