American Originality
Essays on Poetry
The probing essays collected in American Originality scrutinise the terms we use to think about recent American poetry, its antecedents (not just Whitman and Dickinson but Ovid, Rilke, Thomas Mann, Keats) and its future, questioning how we distinguish between work that is unique and work that is original, carefully delineating the allure of both 'shared traditions' and 'the cult of illogic'. Attentive always to risk and danger, Louise Glück illuminates how the poet at work moves between panic and gratitude, agony and resolution.Essays on specific writers and on the larger themes of American literature introduce the terms by which she reads an…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-80017-156-5
- EAN: 9781800171565
- Produktnummer: 36036744
- Verlag: Carcanet
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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Louise Glück is the author of twelve books of poems and two collections of essays. In 2020 she received the Nobel Prize for Literature 'for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal'.
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