Dreamers of dreams : essays on poets and poetry / John Simon.

Author/creator Simon, John
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : I.R. Dee, 2001.
Descriptionxxi, 265 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Poetry, Modern--20th century. --History and criticism.
Poetry, Modern--19th century. --History and criticism.

Contents On making the masterpiece -- Laura Riding and her traveling circus -- Robed in images : the memoirs of James Merrill -- Partying on Parnassus : the New York school of poets -- Wilde the poet -- "When the ecstatic body grips" -- First-class mail : a wit and his world -- Squaring the circle : Stéphane Mallarmé -- Rimbaud, the anarchic demiurge -- A great, baggy monster: Rilke's "Duino elegies" -- Death fugues : the poems of Paul Celan -- Anna Akhmatova -- Brodsky in retrospect -- On translation -- Traduttore, traditore, or, The tradition of traducing -- Victimized Verlaine.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2001032291
ISBN156663413X (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN1271 .S55 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold