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Wallace Stevens is one of the major poets of the twentieth century, and also among the most challenging. His poems can be dazzling in their verbal brilliance. They are often shot through with lavish imagery and wit, informed by a lawyer's logic, and disarmingly unexpected: a singing jackrabbit, the seductive Nanzia Nunzio. They also spoke--and still speak--to contemporary concerns. Though his work is popular and his readership continues to grow, many readers encountering it are baffled by such rich and strange poetry. Eleanor Cook, a leading critic of poetry and expert on Stevens, gives us here the essential reader's guide to this important American poet. Cook goes through each of Stevens's ...
Discusses the writing of The waste land by T.S. Eliot. Includes critical essays on the work and a brief biography of the author.
Tracing the descendants of Elias Cook of Massachusetts from the 1700's through to the 1930's, this book encompasses the genealogies of many extended branches within the Cook family.
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This book looks at how poems work, showing how they speak to historical, ethical, and aesthetic questions. It also demonstrates how to read poetry—how to go beyond an elementary approach, to recover the sheer pleasure of good poems.
A wide-ranging and original study on how enigmas and riddles work in literature.