Essays On Poetry Pa

by Mills,Ralph J.

• ISBN13: 9781564782946
• ISBN10: 1564782948
• Edition: 00
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2003-05-17
• Publisher: JOHN MUIR

Author Biography

Ralph J. Mills, Jr. is a significant figure in contemporary poetry for his work as a poet, critic, and professor. His poetry collections include Living with Distance, A Window in Air, and March Light, which received the Carl Sandburg Award. From 1962 to 1965 he served as Assistant Professor and Associate Chairman of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is professor emeritus of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Creation's Very Self: On the Personal Element in Recent American Poetry	p. 3
Wallace Stevens: The Image of the Rock	p. 40
The Poetic Roles of Edith Sitwell	p. 55
The Visionary Poetry of Kathleen Raine	p. 86
Stanley Kunitz	p. 129
Theodore Roethke	p. 141
Brother Antoninus (William Everson)	p. 159
Karl Shapiro	p. 171
Isabella Gardner	p. 186
Richard Wilbur	p. 195
Denise Levertov	p. 207
James Wright	p. 222
Char and Michaux: Magicians of Insecurity	p. 241
Samuel Beckett's Man	p. 256
Earth Hard: David Ignatow's Poetry	p. 261
A Reading of Galway Kinnell	p. 314
Donald Hall's Poetry	p. 360
"The Body with the Lamp Lit Inside": Robert Bly's New Poems	p. 407
"Of Energy Compacted and Whirling": Robert Bly's Recent Prose Poems	p. 417
Everything That's Luminous	p. 439
"The True and Earthy Prayer": Philip Levine's Poetry	p. 447
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