Schlagwort: Stephen Burt

Is Rococo Over?

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?“

Conventions

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“

Artless honesty

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“