The Collected Essays of Robert Creeley (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Robert Creeley
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Literary history and criticism
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: History, Literature, Poetry or poets, Writing, Novelists, Criticism, Painting or painters, Heroes or heroism, Learning or scholarship
During the first half of the twentieth century, one of the most important modes of the American poetic tradition was rendered almost invisible to the reading world by the ascendancy of a group of critics and scholars who effectively supported only their own conception of poetry. Men such as Robert Frost who wrote in the familiar forms and meters of British poetry were celebrated by the New Critics and their followers, who were committed to a certain historical perspective; meanwhile, writers such as Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Marianne Moore found it difficult to publish...
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