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The poet and critic M.L. Rosenthal explores the sources of poetry
in our daily lives, in the common speech, and in the awareness and
sensibility that poets share with the rest of humanity. Through a
wide range of examples drawn from poetry, he explores how art is a
natural human activity that makes us aware of ourselves and the
world around us in a way as never before. He exposes poetry's
relation to our surroundings, politics, language, sex, love, and
death.
This book talks about William Carlos Williams's work in poetry,
friction, autobiography, drama and essays-shows conclusively that
his prose was also remarkably original, versatile and powerful.
In Running to Paradise, M.L. Rosenthal, hailed by the Times
Literary Supplement as "one of the most important critics of
twentieth-century poetry," leads us through the lyric poetry and
poetic drama of our century's greatest poet in English. His
readings shed new, vivid light on Yeats's daring uses of tradition,
his love poetry, and the way he faced the often tragic realities of
revolution and civil war. Running to Paradise describes Yeats's
whole effort--sometimes leavened by wild humor--to convey, with
high poetic integrity, his passionate sense of his own life and of
his chaotic era.
Himself a noted poet, Rosenthal stresses Yeats's artistry and
psychological candor. The book ranges from his early exquisite
lyrical poems and folklore-rooted plays, through the
tougher-minded, more confessional mature work (including the
sublime achievement of The Tower), and then to the sometimes "mad"
yet often brilliant tragic or comic writing of his last years.
Quoting extensively from Yeats, Rosenthal charts the gathering
force with which the poet confronted his major life-issues: his
art's demands, his persistent but hopeless love for one woman, the
complexities of marriage to another woman at age 52, and his
distress during Ireland's "Troubles." Yeats's deep absorption in
female sensibility, in the cycles of history and human thought, and
in supernaturalism and "the dead" comes strongly into play as well.
In this original work, one of our most distinguished poets and
critics considers the nature of poetry as "a recovery, in language,
of revelatory awareness in process," and of structure as a
"balancing of pressures active inside the poem." In fresh, precise
language, he presents a compelling theory of poetry based on
intimate engagement with the many poems he quotes and discusses.
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