Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
E-Book/E-Doc
Author Spiegelman, Willard.

Title How poets see the world [electronic resource] : the art of description in contemporary poetry / Willard Spiegelman.

Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xi, 238 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-217) and index.
Contents The way things look each day : how poets see the world -- Just looking : Charles Tomlinson and the "labour of observation" -- What to make of an augmented thing : Amy Clampitt's syntactic dramas -- Charles Wright and "the metaphysics of the quotidian" -- A space for boundless revery : varieties of ekphrastic experience -- John Ashbery's haunted landscapes -- Jorie Graham's "new way of looking".
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Vision in literature.
Description (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.
Art and literature -- United States.
Visual perception in literature.
Landscapes in literature.
Nature in literature.
Art in literature.
Ekphrasis.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780195174915 (acid-free paper)
0195174917 (acid-free paper)

 
    
Available items only