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Classes on Modern Poets and the Art of Poetry - Discussions of the Modern Poetic Tradition from the Perspective of a Practicing Writer (Hardcover)
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Classes on Modern Poets and the Art of Poetry - Discussions of the Modern Poetic Tradition from the Perspective of a Practicing Writer (Hardcover)
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Widely known as the winner of the 1966 National Book Award and
author of the best-selling novel ""Deliverance"", James Dickey
devoted himself as much to the critique of the modern literary
tradition as to his participation in it. A writer enthralled by
teaching, he lectured at several major universities before settling
at the University of South Carolina for nearly three decades as
poet-in-residence. After his death in 1997, a transcript of his
lectures was found among his papers. Collected here and published
for the first time, these lectures reveal judgments and appraisals
Dickey would use to great effect in his teaching. They also
contribute to the unraveling of Dickey's art from the
larger-than-life myth that surrounded him. In a comprehensive
introduction to Dickey's remarks, Donald J. Greiner evaluates the
relevance of the writer's often sharply worded opinions. The volume
brings to life class sessions planned and delivered soon after
Dickey took up full-time residence at the University of South
Carolina, in the triumphal years following his rapid succession of
honours. Full of asides, witticisms and afterthoughts, the sessions
suggest not the pontification of a scholar at an academic
conference but the confident learning of a practicing poet who
happens to enjoy being in the classroom. Clearly setting forth his
sense of literary criticism, Dickey repeatedly emphasizes the
preeminence of the poet over the critic, the original use of
language as a primary criterion for effective poetry, and the
centrality of personal reaction to poetry as a measure of its
value. Dickey's comments are valuable for their insight into both
his own thought processes and those of the poets he reviewed, among
them William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Dylan Thomas, A.E. Housman,
Gerald Manley Hopkins, Robert Frost, Walter de la Mare and Robert
Bridges.
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