Galway Kinnell

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Galway Kinnell Criticism

The critical scholarship surrounding Galway Kinnell's poetry reveals a deep engagement with themes of mortality, human connection, and the natural world. His body of work is marked by a transition from traditional forms to more experimental verse, capturing the evolution of his thematic preoccupations and stylistic developments. Renowned for his evocative free verse, Kinnell has crafted a poetic legacy that intertwines personal and geographical landscapes, exploring existential questions through a lens of symbolic mythology and natural imagery.

Contents

  • Principal Works
  • Kinnell, Galway (Vol. 5)
  • Kinnell, Galway (Vol. 129)
  • Kinnell, Galway (Vol. 1)
  • Kinnell, Galway (Vol. 2)
  • Kinnell, Galway (Vol. 29)
    • A Reading of Galway Kinnell
    • Devices Among Words: Kinnell, Bly, Simic
    • Kinnell's 'Walking Down the Stairs'
    • 'The Rank Flavor of Blood': The Poetry of Galway Kinnell
    • Dimensions of Reality
    • Straight Forth Out of Self
    • Recent Poetry: Five Poets
    • Take but Degree Away
    • Where We Might Meet Each Other: An Appreciation of Galway Kinnell and William Everson
    • Intact and Triumphant
    • Selected Poems
  • Kinnell, Galway (Vol. 3)
  • Kinnell, Galway (Vol. 13)
    • Richmond Lattimore
    • John Hobbs
    • Vernon Young
    • Jerome McGann
    • J. T. Ledbetter
    • Alan Helms
    • Galway Kinnell's 'The Book of Nightmares'
  • Kinnell, Galway
    • What a Kingdom It Was
    • Galway Kinnell: Moments of Transcendence
    • Body Rags
    • Galway Kinnell with The Ohio Review
    • The Structure of Galway Kinnell's The Book of Nightmares
    • Al Poulin, Jr., and Stan Samuel Rubin (interview date 1976)
    • Kinnell, Galway
    • Mortal Acts, Mortal Words
    • Selected Poems
    • Galway Kinnell Searches for Innocence
    • 'One and Zero Walk Off Together': Dualism in Galway Kinnell's The Book of Nightmares
    • Refuge in the Library, on the Farm and in Memories
    • A review of The Past
    • From Irony to Lyricism: Galway Kinnell's True Voice
    • The Poetic Milieu of Galway Kinnell: From Modernism to Postmodernism and Neoromanticism
    • The Past and Other Works
    • Poetry Roundup: Imperfect Thirst
    • Galway Kinnell: A Voice to Lead Us
  • Further Reading