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- catalog abstract "This volume presents the full range of Reynolds Price's poetic accomplishment over the past thirty-six years. His first three collections are brought together in their entirety; and a masterful new collection, The Unaccountable Worth of the World, is introduced. In his preface to The Collected Poems, Price credits guides as various as Miss Jane Alston, a public school English teacher in North Carolina, and W.H. Auden, one of his teachers at Oxford University: The sure trajectory of Price's development as a poet is traced from the "inexplicable elation" of his adolescent discovery of Emily Dickinson, to a lengthy immersion in John Milton's "polyphonic language, with its ready access to the eloquence of plain speech", to the four-stress rhythm of the Anglo-Saxons and Coleridge on which his work often continues to depend - that rhythm being "closely allied to the wary economy and dignity of those kinds of speech that, in my lifetime, have been most concerned for lucid and memorable communication". Those familiar with Price's earlier work will welcome having in one volume such vivid contributions as "The Annual Heron" (from Vital Provisions), "House Snake" (The Laws of Ice) and "An Afterlife, 1953-1988" (The Use of Fire). All will be introduced for the first time to his latest poems from the journal called "Days and Nights". This notebook was begun in the early 1980s, shortly before Price was diagnosed with a grave illness; and the entries continue in the second of three parts of The Unaccountable Worth of the World, many of them contending with the death of friends - "the Dying Belt, as my father called it". The whole new collection culminates in the powerful departures of such poems as "Scored by Light" and "The Closing, The Ecstasy."".
- catalog alternative "Poems. Selections".
- catalog contributor b10316336.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "This volume presents the full range of Reynolds Price's poetic accomplishment over the past thirty-six years. His first three collections are brought together in their entirety; and a masterful new collection, The Unaccountable Worth of the World, is introduced. In his preface to The Collected Poems, Price credits guides as various as Miss Jane Alston, a public school English teacher in North Carolina, and W.H. Auden, one of his teachers at Oxford University: The sure trajectory of Price's development as a poet is traced from the "inexplicable elation" of his adolescent discovery of Emily Dickinson, to a lengthy immersion in John Milton's "polyphonic language, with its ready access to the eloquence of plain speech", to the four-stress rhythm of the Anglo-Saxons and Coleridge on which his work often continues to depend - that rhythm being "closely allied to the wary economy and dignity of those kinds of speech that, in my lifetime, have been most concerned for lucid and memorable communication". Those familiar with Price's earlier work will welcome having in one volume such vivid contributions as "The Annual Heron" (from Vital Provisions), "House Snake" (The Laws of Ice) and "An Afterlife, 1953-1988" (The Use of Fire). All will be introduced for the first time to his latest poems from the journal called "Days and Nights". This notebook was begun in the early 1980s, shortly before Price was diagnosed with a grave illness; and the entries continue in the second of three parts of The Unaccountable Worth of the World, many of them contending with the death of friends - "the Dying Belt, as my father called it". The whole new collection culminates in the powerful departures of such poems as "Scored by Light" and "The Closing, The Ecstasy."".
- catalog description "Vital provisions -- The laws of ice -- The use of fire -- The unaccountable worth of the world.".
- catalog extent "xxiv, 471 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Collected poems.".
- catalog identifier "0684832038".
- catalog isFormatOf "Collected poems.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Scribner,".
- catalog relation "Collected poems.".
- catalog subject "811/.54 21".
- catalog subject "American poetry 20th century.".
- catalog subject "PS3566.R54 A6 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "Vital provisions -- The laws of ice -- The use of fire -- The unaccountable worth of the world.".
- catalog title "Poems. Selections".
- catalog title "The collected poems / Price Reynolds.".
- catalog type "Poetry. lcgft".
- catalog type "text".