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Kenneth Rexroth

Classics Revisited Pa

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Poet, translator, essayist, and voracious reader--Kenneth Rexroth was an omnivore in the fields of literature. The brief, radiant essays of Classics Revisited discuss sixty key books that are, for Rexroth, basic documents in the history of the imagination. Ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Huckleberry Finn, these pieces (each about five pages long) originally appeared in the Saturday Review. Distinguished by Rexroth's plain, wide-awake style, Classics Revisited presents complex ideas in simple language, energized by the author's air of talking eye-to-eye with his reader. Elastic, at home in several languages, Rexroth is not bound by East… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Morrow, Bradford (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-8112-0988-5
  • EAN: 9780811209885
  • Produktnummer: 2815979
  • Verlag: New Directions
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1986
  • Seitenangabe: 228 S.
  • Masse: H20.5 cm x B12.8 cm x D1.8 cm 236 g
  • Gewicht: 236

Über den Autor


Poet-essayist Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) was a high-school dropout, disillusioned ex-Communist, pacifist, anarchist, rock-climber, critic and translator, mentor, Catholic-Buddhist spiritualist and a prominent figure of San Francisco's Beat scene. He is regarded as a central figure of the San Francisco Renaissance and is among the first American poets to explore traditional Japanese forms such as the haiku.

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