Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950

Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
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Toward the Open Field brings together many of the great prose piecesâ€”essays, letters, declarations, defenses, manifestos, and apologiaâ€”by the most influential European and American poets from the Romantics to the Symbolists, Surrealists, and Moderns. Hitherto uncollected and all in English, the work in this anthology follows the changing notions of what a poem is, what a poet is, and why we read a poem, tracing the development of stylistic and ideological strategies that have spawned our current, conflicting understandings of verse.

The book begins with Wordsworthâ€™s 1802 â€œPrefaceâ€ to the Lyrical Ballads and proceeds through 150 years of English language tradition, including the European poetries which greatly influenced it. These prose works allow the reader to share one of the great extended conversations by poets about poetry during a dynamic period of literary experimentation.

Includes work by Charles Baudelaire, AndrÃ© Breton, AimÃ© CÃ©saire, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Langston Hughes, John Keats, Federico Garcia Lorca, Mina Loy, StÃ©phane MallarmÃ©, Marianne Moore, Charles Olson, Ezra Pound, Arthur Rimbaud, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, Paul ValÃ©ry, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, William Wordsworth and Louis Zukofsky.
Country USA
Brand Wesleyan University Press
Manufacturer Wesleyan University Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780819566072
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Wesleyan University Press
Manufacturer	Wesleyan University Press
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780819566072
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

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