Essays. The Delicacy Of Walt Whitman -- Far From The Madding Crowd: An Afterword -- The Absorbing Eye Of Dickens -- The Madmen In Barnaby Rudge -- The Mystery Of Edwin Drood: An Afterword -- Meditations On René Char -- Theordor Storm: Foreword -- A Note On Trakl -- A Note On Cesar Vallejo -- Translator's Note On Herman Hesse -- Frost: Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening -- A Master Of Silence -- The Work Of Gary Snyder -- Some Notes On Chinese Poetry, A Sermon, And Four Interviews. Some Note On Chinese Poetry -- Of Things Invisible -- An Interview With Michael André -- Something To Be Said For The Light: A Conversation With William Heyen And Jerome Mazzaro -- Poetry Must Think: An Interview With Bruce Henricksen -- The Pure Clear Word: An Interview With Dave Smith -- Reviews. The Stiff Smile Of Mr. Warren -- The Terrible Threshold -- Hardy's Poetry: A Study And A Selection -- A Shelf Of New Poets -- The Few Poets Of England And America -- Gravity And Incantation -- A Plain Brave Music -- James Wright On Roger Hecht -- I Come To Speak For Your Dead Mouths -- Secrets Of The Inner Landscape -- Memoirs. On The Occasion Of A Poem: Richard Hugo -- On The Occasion Of A Poem: Bill Knott -- The Infidel -- Childhood Sketch. James Wright ; Edited By Anne Wright.

Wright, James Arlington, 1927-1980; Wright, Anne (Edith Anne)

Poets on poetry, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1983

United States, United States of America

First Edition, US, 1983

Wright wrote most of the essays and reviews collected here during the 1950s and '60s, when he was teaching at the University of Minnesota. The volume includes four interviews and some memoirs. Part of Ann Arbor's "Poets on Poetry" series.

xv, 334 p. ; 21 cm

2023-06-28