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Veröffentlicht am 2. Dezember 2016 von lyrikzeitung
The time for poetry of ruffles and dessert — by champions of liberalism like Marianne Moore — has waned. What we need now is Yeats. I have not lost my interest, nor my belief, in the powers of poetry. But my goals for my… Continue Reading „Is Rococo Over?“
Kategorie: Englisch, USASchlagworte: Marianne Moore, Stephen Burt, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats
Veröffentlicht am 27. Juli 2015 von lyrikzeitung
To call an author—especially a poet—conventional is, usually, an insult. But maybe it shouldn’t be. Modernism taught us to prize poets who seemed sui generis, reinventing whatever they used. Yet even those poets—even Gertrude Stein, never mind Yeats—encountered, and learned, and passed on complex… Continue Reading „Conventions“
Kategorie: Englisch, USASchlagworte: Aaron Kunin, Caki Wilkinson, Gertrude Stein, Mette Moestrup, Noelle Kokot, Sean Bishop, Stephen Burt
Veröffentlicht am 7. März 2002 von rekalisch
Stephen Burt schreibt einen Essay anläßlich der Neuausgabe der Gedichte von William Carlos Williams : Description and ventriloquism, though, were his strengths: without them, the late poems grew weakly sententious, or mushy (‚No defeat is made up entirely of defeat – since/the world it… Continue Reading „Artless honesty“
Kategorie: Englisch, USASchlagworte: Stephen Burt, William Carlos Williams
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