Praises and Dispraises

by Terrence Des Pres

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Poems 1913–1956 by Bertolt Brecht
DromJohn Des Pres connects Brecht to William Butler Yeats, Breyten Breytenbach, Thomas McGrath and Adrienne Rich into the bardic tradition.
Letter to an Imaginary Friend: Parts I-IV by Thomas McGrath
DromJohn Des Pres connects McGrath to the bardic tradition of William Butler Yeats, Bertolt Brecht, Breyton Breytonbach and Adrienne Rich. More than the others, McGrath is the most joyful in his dispraising.
The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New 1950-1984 by Adrienne Rich
DromJohn Des Pres connects the blaming feminism of Rich to the bardic tradition of William Butler Yeats, Bertolt Brecht, Breyten Breytenbach and Thomas McGrath.
Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats
DromJohn Two chapters in Praises puts Yeats work in context with Irish politics and the bardic tradition: Yeats and the Rat-Rhymers; and Yeats and Hysterica Passio.
The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist by Breyten Breytenbach
DromJohn Des Pres connects Breytenbach to William Butler Yeats, Bertolt Brecht, Thomas McGrath into the bardic tradition.
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DromJohn464 reviews
The poets' job is to blame and praise; rhyme the rats to death; give hope to the tribe. Praise is a solid whole which ties the poets William Butler Yeats, Bertolt Brecht, Breyten Breytenbach, Thomas McGrath and Adrienne Rich into the struggle between Antigone and Creon, the individual against the power.
Mar 19, 2009
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Original publication date
1988
Epigraph
What looks the strongest has outlived its term, / The future lies with what's affirmed from under. -- Seamus Heaney, "The Haw Lantern"
Dedication
For Liz
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This book has been written for men and women who care about poetry and read it first of all for personal reasons.
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(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It also makes possible the essential decency of compassion, of suffering with -- a symbolic action, to be sure, but one without which the spirit withers, the self shuts down.
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Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
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809.1 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures Poetry
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PN1081 .D47 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Poetry Relations to, and treatment of,
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