Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1979.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-300).
Contents
1. Origins : the sources and motives of poetry: Ars poetica? / Czeslaw Milosz ; Toward explaining heteronymy / Fernando Pessoa ; The word & culture / Osip Mandelstam ; Some statements / Boris Pasternak ; The duende : theory and divertissement / Federico García Lorca ; Words before a reading / Luis Cernuda ; The irrational element in poetry / Wallace Stevens ; The formal share / René Char ; from Intentions (imaginary interview) / Eugenio Montale ; from A poet's journal / George Seferis ; The vocation of the poet in the modern world / Delore Schwartz ; What is not poetry? / Karl Shapiro ; The three faces of love / A.D. Hope ; Poetry and science / Hugh MacDiarmid ; Why write / Günter Kunert ; The specialization of poetry / Wendell Berry -- 2. Practice : the poet's work: Poetry / Marianne Moore ; from Notes on poetry / Antonio Machado ; A poet's notebook / Paul Valéry ; General aims and theories / Hart Crane ; Poetic manifesto / Dylan Thomas ; Projective verse and The practice / William Carlos Williams ; The pleasures of formal poetry / Louise Bogan ; Idiosyncrasy and technique / Marianne Moore ; The woman and the Washington Zoo / Randall Jarrell ; Writing / W.H. Auden ; Some notes on organic form / Denise Levertov ; Notes on poetic form / Robert Duncan ; Feelings into words / Seamus Heaney ; The real work (excerpts from an interview) / Gary Snyder.
