Figurehead And Other Poems【電子書籍】[ John Hollander ]

＜p＞In a major review in ＜em＞The New Republic＜/em＞ of John Hollander's two earlier books, ＜strong＞Tesserae＜/strong＞ and ＜strong＞Selected Poetry＜/strong＞ (both 1993), Vernon Shetley said, "John Hollander's poetry has shown a visionary power just often enough to secure him a place as one of the major figures of our moment."＜/p＞ ＜p＞Figurehead, a lively, varied, and technically dazzling book, confirms the statement made by Henry Taylor in the ＜em＞Washington Times:＜/em＞ "John Hollander revels in technical challenges of unusual severity and complexity, yet most of his poems also have the emotional heft of something worth pausing over and remembering."＜/p＞ ＜p＞One of the most gifted of W. H. Auden's choices for the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Hollander has pursued the wide range and metrical brilliance of Auden's own poetry, so that this new book exhibits both a large compass of subject matter (from philosophical matters to personal narrative) and, as usual, some astonishing meditations on pa．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る