Quick, Said the Bird by Richard Swigg

Quick, Said the Bird by Richard Swigg

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Makes the case for acoustics as the basis of the linkages, kinships, and inter-illuminations of a major twentieth-century literary relationship. Outsiders in their home terrain who nevertheless continued to reach back to their own American vocal identities, Williams, Eliot, and Moore embody a unique lineage that can be traced from their first significant works (1909–1918) to the 1960s.

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Quick, Said the Bird by Richard Swigg

Makes the case for acoustics as the basis of the linkages, kinships, and inter-illuminations of a major twentieth-century literary relationship. Outsiders in their home terrain who nevertheless continued to reach back to their own American vocal identities, Williams, Eliot, and Moore embody a unique lineage that can be traced from their first significant works (1909-1918) to the 1960s.

“One feels better for having read Richard Swigg’s Quick, Said the BirdSwigg links Eliot to his alleged opposite, Williams, and then links them both to Moore—a valuable endeavour. There is a genial, learned, sensitive, emotionally vital quality to Swigg’s commentary. This is a beautifully written, highly intelligent study that will stay with the reader for some time.”—Steven Gould Axelrod, coeditor, The New Anthology of American Poetry, volume 2, Modernisms, 1900–1950

Swigg, Richard: - The late Richard Swigg, was senior lecturer in English at Keele University. He wrote on D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot and Marianne Moore. He published the collected recordings of Williams, George Oppen, Charles Tomlinson, Basil Bunting and Hugh MacDiarmid.
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ISBN 13 9781609380793
ISBN 10 1609380797
Title Quick, Said the Bird
Author Richard Swigg
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of Iowa Press
Year published 2012-03-30
Number of pages 184
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