Alan Shapiro (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Alan Shapiro has confined his work mostly to poetry and poetic prose, but his 1993 collection
of essays In Praise of the Impure: Poetry and the Ethical Imagination:Essays, 1980-1991
includes discussions of his poetic theory concerning the way imaginative literature can test the
reader’s moral certitudes and the narrative
element in lyric poetry. The collection also includes
some discussion of poets J. V. Cunningham,
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