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- catalog abstract "The Catbird's Song is a selection of prose pieces, on a variety of topics, by one of the most distinguished poets and translators of our time, Richard Wilbur - former Poet Laureate of the United States, winner of the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the PEN Translation Award. These lectures, letters, reviews, addresses, prefaces, and interviews, what Wilbur calls the "prose by-products of a poet's life," not only reveal the ideas and concerns that inform his remarkable oeuvre; they offer fresh takes on the works and lives of poets we thought we knew; poets we ought to know; and much more.".
- catalog contributor b10193114.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "A Word from Cummington -- Poe and the Art of Suggestion -- Longfellow -- The Persistence of Riddles -- May Swenson -- John Ciardi -- Glimpses -- Elizabeth Bishop -- On "Little Exercise" -- On Robert Francis' "Sheep" -- Tennyson's Voyage of the Mind -- Edgar Allan Poe's Eleonora -- Milton's "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso" -- Some Notes on "Lying" -- Regarding "Thyme Flowering among Rocks" -- About "Cottage Street, 1953" -- Movies and Dreams -- Forewords -- Opening Remarks -- Notes on Translating Classic Verse Plays -- A Talk about Translation -- Witter Bynner.".
- catalog description "The Catbird's Song is a selection of prose pieces, on a variety of topics, by one of the most distinguished poets and translators of our time, Richard Wilbur - former Poet Laureate of the United States, winner of the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the PEN Translation Award. These lectures, letters, reviews, addresses, prefaces, and interviews, what Wilbur calls the "prose by-products of a poet's life," not only reveal the ideas and concerns that inform his remarkable oeuvre; they offer fresh takes on the works and lives of poets we thought we knew; poets we ought to know; and much more.".
- catalog extent "xii, 242 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Catbird's song.".
- catalog identifier "0151002541 (cloth)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Catbird's song.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Harcourt Brace,".
- catalog relation "Catbird's song.".
- catalog subject "818/.5208 20".
- catalog subject "American essays 20th century.".
- catalog subject "PS3545.I32165 C38 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "A Word from Cummington -- Poe and the Art of Suggestion -- Longfellow -- The Persistence of Riddles -- May Swenson -- John Ciardi -- Glimpses -- Elizabeth Bishop -- On "Little Exercise" -- On Robert Francis' "Sheep" -- Tennyson's Voyage of the Mind -- Edgar Allan Poe's Eleonora -- Milton's "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso" -- Some Notes on "Lying" -- Regarding "Thyme Flowering among Rocks" -- About "Cottage Street, 1953" -- Movies and Dreams -- Forewords -- Opening Remarks -- Notes on Translating Classic Verse Plays -- A Talk about Translation -- Witter Bynner.".
- catalog title "The catbird's song : prose pieces, 1963-1995 / Richard Wilbur.".
- catalog type "text".