Kenneth Rexroth (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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In addition to more than thirty books of poetry, of which nearly half are translations from six
languages, Kenneth Rexroth philosophically developed his erotic mysticism in verse drama, autobiographies, and critical essays. His four ritual
plays of ecstatic transcendence in the midst of collapsing Classical Greek civilization, influenced
by Japanese Nō and Greek tragedy, were collected in 1951 as Beyond the
Mountains, premiered by the Living Theater in New York. Praised as one of Rexroth’s
most enduring achievements by poet [The entire page is 3397 words long]
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