Jan 2, 2010
Despite being admired and encouraged while still in his twenties by such poetic luminaries as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, and being friends with such illustrious contemporaries as William Carlos Williams, in addition to being the principal exponent of the Objectivist theory of poetry, Louis Zukofsky has become the most overlooked major American poet of the twentieth century. In part, this neglect may be explained by the reaction against experimentation among poets and critics in Zukofsky’s closing years, when he might have expected greater recognition for the fruits of his imaginative...
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