How poets see the world [[electronic resource] ] : the art of description in contemporary poetry / / Willard Spiegelman

• Autore: Spiegelman Willard
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Disciplina: 811.009/22
• Soggetto topico: American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism; Vision in literature; Description (Rhetoric) - History - 20th century; Art and literature - United States; Visual perception in literature; Landscapes in literature; Nature in literature; Art in literature; Ekphrasis
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-217) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The way things look each day : how poets see the world -- Just looking : Charles Tomlinson and the "labour of observation" -- What to make of an augmented thing : Amy Clampitt's syntactic dramas -- Charles Wright and "the metaphysics of the quotidian" -- A space for boundless revery : varieties of ekphrastic experience -- John Ashbery's haunted landscapes -- Jorie Graham's "new way of looking".
• Sommario/riassunto: How do poets see the world? What are they looking for? How do they transcribe their vision and make poems out of their observations? This work looks at poets (John Ashbery, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Charles Tomlinson, and Charles Wright), with an eye to explain the art of description in poetry.
• Titolo autorizzato: How poets see the world
• ISBN: 0-19-772461-2; 1-280-42822-8; 1-4237-4610-4; 0-19-803900-X; 1-60256-516-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819064603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II