Author: Pinsky, Robert
Title: The Situation of Poetry : Contemporary Poetry and Its Traditions
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1976). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xi, 188 pp, Some light page-edge soil.. Minor soil to dustwrapper, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction: "Modern" & "Contemporary"; Examples; Voices: Preliminary; Lowell; Berryman; Hardy, Ransom, Berryman; The Romantic Persistance: "Romantic": "Ode to a Nightingale"; "Modern": "The Term"; " The Most of It"; and "The Snow Man"; Generalities; "Contemporary"; Conventions of Wonder: "Description": Bogan, O'Hara; "Description": Some Contemporaries; Wonder & Derangement: "Orchids", "Badger", and "Poppies in July"; The Discursive Aspect of Poetry: "Earnestness": Cunningham, Bidart; Ammons; McMichaels "Itinerary"; Poetic Dictions & Prose Virtues; Final Remarks.

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