The Confessional Poets - Rilegato

Phillips, Robert S.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0809306425 ISBN 13: 9780809306428

Casa editrice: Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 1973

Riassunto

Confessional poetry as a genre was first characterized by the critic M. L. Rosenthal in 1959. It has become a potent force, and its practitioners the poetic voices of our time. The poetry is highly subjective, written with frankness and lack of re­straint, and focuses on the ugliness of life. Its leading practitioners, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, W. D. Snodgrass, and John Berryman, have all been recipients of the highest awards in literature, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Poetry.

 

Robert Phillips, a critic and also a poet, here directs our attention to the genre in the first book on the subject. In addition to the poets noted above, he discusses the work of Theodore Roethke, Sylvia Plath, Stanley Kunitz, Delmore Schwartz, and Allen Ginsberg.

 

Especially valuable are the author’s defi­nition and historical review of the genre and his use of interviews and personal comments. An appraisal of the genre, his book is also a guide to new avenues open to poets writing today.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Robert Phillips has taught at Syracuse, where he received his A.B. and M.A. de­grees, and at the New School for Social Research. He lives in Purdy’s, New York.

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Book by Phillips Robert

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Southern Illinois Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0809306425
• ISBN 13: 9780809306428
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 192