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Bromwich, David, 1951-

Skeptical music : essays on modern poetry / David Bromwich. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001. - xvii, 256 pages ; 24 cm

Includes index.

An art without importance -- Poetic invention and the Self-Unseeing -- T.S. Eliot and Hart Crane -- Crane in his letters -- Stevens and the idea of the hero -- Marianne Moore as discoverer -- "That weapon, self-protectiveness": notes on friendship -- Elizabeth Bishop's dream-houses -- The making of the Auden canon -- Answer, heavenly muse, yes or no -- Geoffrey Hill and the conscience of words -- Ted Hughes's River -- A poet and her burden -- John Ashbery: the self against its images -- Hemingway's valor -- How moral is taste?

ISBN: 0226075605 9780226075600 0226075613 9780226075617

LCCN: 00046714

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1900-1999

Subjects--Topical Terms:
American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
English poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Poésie américaine--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Poésie anglaise--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
American poetry.
English poetry.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

LC Class. No.: PS323.5 / .B76 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 811/.509