Barbarous knowledge; myth in the poetry of Yeats, Graves, and Muir
by Daniel Hoffman
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Well a book about the effect of mythological activity on the poetry of some of the major poets. I am afraid that I can consciously recall no more than that...but perhaps that explains the relationship between mythology and the production of literary material, and of the value of literary scholarship and analysis. Graves and Yeats, and someone named Muir, whom I can't recall at present.
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Daniel Gerard Hoffman (April 3, 1923 to March 30, 2013) was an American poet, essayist, and academic. He was appointed the 22nd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1973. Hoffman was born in New York City. During World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps an was stationed stateside as a technical writer and as the show more editor of an aeronautical research journal. He detailed his experiences in his memoir: Zone of the Interior, 1942-1947. He was educated at Columbia University, where he earned a B.A. (1947), an M.A. (1949), and a Ph.D. (1956). In 1954, Hoffman published his first collection of poetry, An Armada of Thirty Whales. His other works included: Darkening Water, A Play of Mirrors, Beyond Silence: Selected Shorter Poems, 1948-2003, and The Whole Nine Yards: Longer Poems. Hoffman died in an assisted living facility in Haverford, Pennsylvania on March 30, 2013. He was 89. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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