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20th Century Pleasures by Robert Hass

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20th Century Pleasures (edition 1999)

by Robert Hass

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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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A selection of essays written during the last five years on the importance and vitality of poetry.

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Prose on Poetry. National Book critics Circle Award Winner.

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809.104Literature › Literature, rhetoric & criticism › History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures › Poetry

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PN1271.H35Language and Literature › Literature (General) › Literature (General) › Poetry › History and criticism

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