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Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry

Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry

Penned By Robert Hass
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Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry

Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry

Penned By Robert Hass
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Editor's Note:
U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass considers some of the twentiethcentury poets who bring him pleasure: Robert Lowll, JamesWright, Tomas Transtromer, Joseph Brodsky, Yvor Winters,Robert Creeley, James McMichael, Czeslaw Milosz, and others,in this, his first collection of essays. Originally published in1984, Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry won theNational Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. A new collection of Robert Hass's essays will be published by Ecco in 1998.

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Imprint Ecco
Released August 29, 1984
Identifier (ISBN) 139781
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