Collected Poems (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Edgar Bowers
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Suicide, Other worlds, World War II, Dreams, Reality, War, Idealism, Light, Stoics
Edgar Bowers is a name frequently invoked in connection with the New Formalist movement, although Bowers is no new New Formalist—he has been writing his lapidary poems since the 1950’s, when formalism was generally accepted and Ivor Winters was king. The hallmarks of Bowers’s style were evident from his first work, and they include restraint, control, precision, balance, and an epigrammatic spareness. A classical sensibility is suggested throughout his work by allusion and echo. The tone is often dry and clever; the speaker approaches his vast experience from a certain...
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