Never Say Die by Carolyn Keene

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Never Say Die by Carolyn Keene

In this book Robert Pinsky writes about contemporary poetry as it reflects its modernist and Romantic past. He isolates certain persistent ideas about poetry's situation relative to life and focuses on the conflict the poet faces between the nature of words and poetic forms on one side, and the nature of experience on the other.


The author ranges for his often surprising examples from Keats to the great modernists such as Stevens and Williams, to the contents of recent magazines. He considers work by Ammons, Ashbery, Bogan, Ginsberg, Lowell, Merwin, O'Hara, and younger writers, offering judgments and enthusiasms from a viewpoint that is consistent but unstereotyped.


Like his poetry, Robert Pinsky's criticism joins the traditional and the innovative in ways that are thoughtful and unmistakably his own. His book is a bold essay on the contemporary situation in poetry, on the dazzling achievements of modernism, and on the nature or situation of poetry itself.

Catherine Keene is a Visiting Associate Professor of Medieval History and Literature at Southern Methodist University in the United States, as well as the Interim Director of the Medieval Studies Program.

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ISBN 13 9780671680510
ISBN 10 067168051X
Title Never Say Die
Author Carolyn Keene
Series Nancy Drew Files
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Pocket Books
Year published 1987-10-01
Number of pages 180
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.