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Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry

by Robert Hass

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Info:	W W Norton & Co Inc (1985), Paperback
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An intelligent man and an important poet writing semi-autobiographical essays about reading the work of other poets (Rilke, Milosz, Transtromer, and others). Immense clarity and insight to be found on every page; especially eye-opening on the topic of poetic meter. (

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U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass considers some of the twentiethcentury poets who bring him pleasure: Robert Lowll, JamesWright, Tomas Transtromer, Joseph Brodsky, Yvor Winters,Robert Creeley, James McMichael, Czeslaw Milosz, and others,in this, his first collection of essays. Originally published in1984, Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry won theNational Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. A new collection of Robert Hass's essays will be published by Ecco in 1998.

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