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Lives of the Poets
Michael Schmidt
出版Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2000-10-31
主題Biography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresLiterary Criticism / PoetryPoetry / Anthologies (multiple authors)
ISBN03757060469780375706042
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ISCNEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

In this stunning volume of epic breadth, Michael Schmidt connects the lives and works of more than 300 poets over the last 700 years--spanning distant shores from Scotland to Australia to the Caribbean, all sharing the English language.

Schmidt reveals how each poet has transformed "a common language of poetry" into the rustic rhythms and elegiac ballads, love sonnets, and experimental postmodern verse that make up our lyrical canon.

A comprehensive guided tour that is lively and always accessible, Lives of the Poets illuminates our most transcendent literary tradition.