New & Selected Essays"Denise Levertov's New & Selected Essays gathers three decades' worth of the poet's most important critical statements. Her subjects are various - poetics, the imagination, politics, spirituality, other writers - and her approach independent minded and richly complex. Here in a single volume are recent essays exploring new ground broken by Levertov in the past decade as well as the finest and most useful prose pieces from The Poet in the World (1973) and Light Up the Cave (1981). With their combination of sensitivity and practicality, the New & Selected Essays will prove enormously helpful to the writer and reader of poetry. As Kirkus Reviews remarked about her prose: "This is humanism in its true sense - her attitude as evidenced (not described) by her writing is such that the reader cannot help but experience life, at least temporarily, with more intensity, joy, and imagination.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
Contents
Some Affinities of Content | 1 |
On Williams Triadic Line | 22 |
The Ideas in the Things | 44 |
Williams and Eliot | 59 |
On the Need for New Terms | 74 |
Linebreaks StanzaSpaces and the Inner Voice | 88 |
Genre and Gender v Serving an Art | 102 |
Great Possessions | 120 |
Paradox and Equilibrium | 139 |
Some Broader Dimensions | 154 |
Biography and the Poet | 172 |
Light Up the Cave | 186 |
Rilke as Mentor | 231 |
Work That Enfaiths | 247 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 265 |
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