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(Part of the The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures Series)

by John Ashbery

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One of the greatest living poets in English here explores the work of six writers he often finds himself reading "in order to get started" when writing, poets he turns to as "a poetic jump-start for times when the batteries have run down." Among those whom John Ashbery reads at such times are John Clare, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Raymond Roussel, John Wheelwright, Laura Riding, and David Schubert. Less familiar than some, under Ashbery's scrutiny...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:067400664X

ISBN13:9780674006645

Release Date:December 2001

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:176 Pages

Weight:0.40 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.1" x 7.5"

Related Subjects

American Literature Criticism & Theory English Literature Europe History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Poetry Wales

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