Words Brushed By Music

Informationen zum Autor John T. Irwin is the Decker Professor in the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University, where he formerly served as chair of the Writing Seminars. His previous books include The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story, recipient of the Modern Language Association’s Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies and Phi Beta Kappa's Christian Gauss Prize. Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) was the author of seven poetry collections and several works of criticism. He was awarded the Pullizter Prize in 1968 for The Hard Hours and his other honors include the Bollingen Prize, the Eugenio Montale Award, the Ruth Lilly Prize, the Dorothea Tanning Award, and the Robert Frost Medal. Klappentext Over the past twenty-five years! the Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction series has published thirty-one volumes of poetry! beginning in 1979 with John Hollander's Blue Wine and Other Poems. The series was launched with two guiding principles: to publish works of poetry exhibiting formal excellence and strong emotional appeal and to publish writers at all stages of their careers. Words Brushed by Music gathers the best poems of the past twenty-five years! works that exhibit extraordinary wit! elegance! wisdom born of experience! and mastery of language. Sometimes comic! always moving! these poems reflect the talent of twenty distinctive voices from contemporary American poetry. Zusammenfassung In this anniversary volume, award-winning poet and critic Anthony Hecht reflects on the state of American poetry today.

Product details

• Authors: John T. (EDT)/ Hecht Irwin
• Assisted by: John T Irwin (Editor), John T. Irwin (Editor), Anthony Hecht (Foreword)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2004
• EAN: 9780801880292
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8029-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fict; Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction; Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fict
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), Poetry anthologies (various poets)