True friendship [[electronic resource] ] : Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell under the sign of Eliot and Pound / / Christopher Ricks

• Autore: Ricks Christopher <1933->
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Disciplina: 821/.9109; B
• Soggetto topico: American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism; English poetry - 20th century - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: "This book was first presented as the Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities given by Christopher Ricks at Bard College in 2007. The lectures have been revised for publication."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Prefatory Note -- 1. Geoffrey Hill -- 2. Anthony Hecht -- 3. Robert Lowell -- Notes -- Credits -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: True Friendship looks closely at three outstanding poets of the past half-century-Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell-through the lens of their relation to their two predecessors in genius, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. The critical attention then finds itself reciprocated, with Eliot and Pound being in their turn contemplated anew through the lenses of their successors. Hill, Hecht, and Lowell are among the most generously alert and discriminating readers, as is borne out not only by their critical prose but (best of all) by their acts of new creation, those poems of theirs that are thanks to Eliot and Pound. "Opposition is true Friendship." So William Blake believed, or at any rate hoped. Hill, Hecht, and Lowell demonstrate many kinds of friendship with Eliot and Pound: adversarial, artistic, personal. In their creative assent and dissent, the imaginative literary allusions-like other, wider forms of influence-are shown to constitute the most magnanimous of welcomes and of tributes.
• Titolo autorizzato: True friendship
• ISBN: 1-299-46383-5; 0-300-16284-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463120703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Anthony Hecht lectures in the humanities.