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Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950 (Wesleyan Poetry) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Toward the Open FieldThe historical writings that helped shape our current understandings of poetry.
Full description- Publisher: University Press of New England
- Published: 30 June 2004
- Format: Paperback 358 pages
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- Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets | Literary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900 | Literary Studies: From C 1900 - | Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets
- ISBN 13: 9780819566072 ISBN 10: 0819566071
- Sales rank: 966,311
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Full description for Toward the Open Field
Toward the Open Field brings together many of the great prose pieces--essays, letters, declarations, defenses, manifestos, and apologia--by the most influential European and American poets from the Romantics to the Symbolists, Surrealists, and Moderns. Hitherto uncollected and all in English, the work in this anthology follows the changing notions of what a poem is, what a poet is, and why we read a poem, tracing the development of stylistic and ideological strategies that have spawned our current, conflicting understandings of verse. The book begins with Wordsworth's 1802 "Preface" to the Lyrical Ballads and proceeds through 150 years of English language tradition, including the European poetries which greatly influenced it. These prose works allow the reader to share one of the great extended conversations by poets about poetry during a dynamic period of literary experimentation. Includes work by Charles Baudelaire, Andre Breton, Aime Cesaire, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Langston Hughes, John Keats, Federico Garcia Lorca, Mina Loy, Stephane Mallarme, Marianne Moore, Charles Olson, Ezra Pound, Arthur Rimbaud, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, Paul Valery, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, William Wordsworth and Louis Zukofsky.
