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Collected Longer Poems (National Poetry Series)
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Author: Hayden Carruth
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Collected Longer Poems (National Poetry Series) Description
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781556590580
ISBN: 155659058X
Label: Copper Canyon Press
Manufacturer: Copper Canyon Press
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 240
Publication Date: 1993-11-01
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Studio: Copper Canyon Press
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781556590580
ISBN: 155659058X
Label: Copper Canyon Press
Manufacturer: Copper Canyon Press
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 240
Publication Date: 1993-11-01
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Studio: Copper Canyon Press
Editorial Review of Collected Longer Poems (National Poetry Series)
Customer Reviews of Collected Longer Poems (National Poetry Series)
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: More Lessons from the Master
Review: W. H. Auden, in his introduction to 19th Century British Minor Poets, established five criteria for being major, of which a candidate must satisfy at least three and a half. The poet must be prolific, demonstrate "wide range in subject matter and treatment," evidence "originality of vision and style," show mastery of verse technique, and continue maturing as a poet until death. Hayden Carruth meets all these conditions, as his Collected Longer Poems demonstrates by itself; taken together with his Collected Shorter Poems (1992), it marks Carruth as a preeminent master. The poems were composed between 1957 and 1983 and have been published in various collections, only one previously unavailable except in a fine-press edition. Three are written in Carruth's trade-mark "paragraphs," rhymed, variably metered fifteen-line stanzas, including The Sleeping Beauty, the heart of Carruth's oeuvre to date. Other poems in the collection are written in sprawling Whitmanesque lines, tercets, free-verse lyrics, and loosened blank verse, the chosen form answering the demands of the subject matter. Few, if any, of Carruth's contemporaries--or immediate predecessors or followers--have demonstrated such extensive mastery.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: An overlooked poet
Review: This collection contains several of Carruth's longer poems, including "The Sleeping Beauty." I picked up this collection to read this poem in my studies and I was impressed. Carruth's poetry is interesting and sparks the imagination with his subtle and genuine style.
Review Summary: More Lessons from the Master
Review: W. H. Auden, in his introduction to 19th Century British Minor Poets, established five criteria for being major, of which a candidate must satisfy at least three and a half. The poet must be prolific, demonstrate "wide range in subject matter and treatment," evidence "originality of vision and style," show mastery of verse technique, and continue maturing as a poet until death. Hayden Carruth meets all these conditions, as his Collected Longer Poems demonstrates by itself; taken together with his Collected Shorter Poems (1992), it marks Carruth as a preeminent master. The poems were composed between 1957 and 1983 and have been published in various collections, only one previously unavailable except in a fine-press edition. Three are written in Carruth's trade-mark "paragraphs," rhymed, variably metered fifteen-line stanzas, including The Sleeping Beauty, the heart of Carruth's oeuvre to date. Other poems in the collection are written in sprawling Whitmanesque lines, tercets, free-verse lyrics, and loosened blank verse, the chosen form answering the demands of the subject matter. Few, if any, of Carruth's contemporaries--or immediate predecessors or followers--have demonstrated such extensive mastery.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: An overlooked poet
Review: This collection contains several of Carruth's longer poems, including "The Sleeping Beauty." I picked up this collection to read this poem in my studies and I was impressed. Carruth's poetry is interesting and sparks the imagination with his subtle and genuine style.