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- catalog abstract ""In Twenty Questions, one of America's finest poet-critics leads readers into the mysteries of poetry: how it draws on our lives, and how it leads us back into them. In a series of linked essays progressing from the autobiographical to the critical - and closing with a remarkable translation of Horace's Ars Poetica unavailable elsewhere - J.D. McClatchy's latest book offers an intimate and illuminating look into the poetic mind."--BOOK JACKET. "McClatchy begins with a portrait of his development as a poet, and provides vibrant details about some of those who helped shape his sensibility - from Anne Sexton in her final days, to Harold Bloom, his enigmatic teacher at Yale, to James Merrill, a wise and witty mentor. All of these glimpses into McClatchy's personal history enhance our understanding of a coming of age from ingenuous reader to accomplished poet-critic."--BOOK JACKET. "Later sections range through poetry past and present - from Emily Dickinson to Seamus Heaney and W.S. Merwin - with incisive criticism generously interspersed with vivid anecdotes about McClatchy's encounters with other poets' lives and work. A critical unpacking of Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Miss Blount," for instance, is interwoven with a compassionate psychological portrait of a brilliant poet plagued by both romantic longings and debilitating physical deformities. There are surprising takes on the literary imagination as well: a look at Elizabeth Bishop through her letters, and a tribute to the Broadway lyrics of Stephen Sondheim."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10701407.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""In Twenty Questions, one of America's finest poet-critics leads readers into the mysteries of poetry: how it draws on our lives, and how it leads us back into them. In a series of linked essays progressing from the autobiographical to the critical - and closing with a remarkable translation of Horace's Ars Poetica unavailable elsewhere - J.D. McClatchy's latest book offers an intimate and illuminating look into the poetic mind."--BOOK JACKET. "McClatchy begins with a portrait of his development as a poet, and provides vibrant details about some of those who helped shape his sensibility - from Anne Sexton in her final days, to Harold Bloom, his enigmatic teacher at Yale, to James Merrill, a wise and witty mentor. All of these glimpses into McClatchy's personal history enhance our understanding of a coming of age from ingenuous reader to accomplished poet-critic."--BOOK JACKET. "Later sections range through poetry past and present - from Emily Dickinson to Seamus Heaney and W.S. Merwin - with incisive criticism generously interspersed with vivid anecdotes about McClatchy's encounters with other poets' lives and work. A critical unpacking of Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Miss Blount," for instance, is interwoven with a compassionate psychological portrait of a brilliant poet plagued by both romantic longings and debilitating physical deformities. There are surprising takes on the literary imagination as well: a look at Elizabeth Bishop through her letters, and a tribute to the Broadway lyrics of Stephen Sondheim."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "A word first -- Reading -- Dreaming -- My fountain pen -- Commonplaces -- Twenty questions -- Reading Pope -- Aspects of "Battle-Piece" -- Woman in white -- Wildness asking for ceremony -- At her other desk -- Laughter in the soul -- Songs of a curmudgeon -- The exile's song -- Chiselled breath -- Sitting here strangely on top of the sunlight -- The lost Upland -- Encountering the sublime -- Braving the elements -- Masters -- The art of poetry.".
- catalog extent "xii, 200 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "023111172X (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
- catalog subject "811/.54 21".
- catalog subject "McClatchy, J. D. 1945- Authorship.".
- catalog subject "PS3563.A26123 T9 1998".
- catalog subject "Poetry.".
- catalog tableOfContents "A word first -- Reading -- Dreaming -- My fountain pen -- Commonplaces -- Twenty questions -- Reading Pope -- Aspects of "Battle-Piece" -- Woman in white -- Wildness asking for ceremony -- At her other desk -- Laughter in the soul -- Songs of a curmudgeon -- The exile's song -- Chiselled breath -- Sitting here strangely on top of the sunlight -- The lost Upland -- Encountering the sublime -- Braving the elements -- Masters -- The art of poetry.".
- catalog title "Twenty questions / J.D. McClatchy.".
- catalog type "text".