20th Century Pleasures
by Robert Hass
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A selection of essays written during the last five years on the importance and vitality of poetry.Tags
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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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Born in San Francisco, Calif., Robert Hass received his undergraduate degree from St. Mary's College and his masters and Ph.D. from Stanford University. After graduating, Hass wrote his first collection of poetry, Field Guide, which went on to win the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 1973. Hass's second collection, Praise, won the Williams show more Carlos Williams Award in 1979. Selected by the Library of Congress as Poet Laureate of the United States in 1995-96, Hass has taught writing at the University of California at Berkeley since 1989. Hass has co-translated several volumes of poetry by Nobel Laureate and fellow colleague Czeslaw Milosz and is the editor of The Essential Haiku. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature, Poetry
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- 809.104 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures Poetry
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- PN1271 .H35 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Poetry History and criticism
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