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Trying to Explain
An analysis of the major voices in the contemporary poetic traditions of England, Ireland, and America
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Trying to Explain gathers a new collection of Donald Davie's essays on poetry and poets. Writing as a British poet who spends most of his time in the United States, Davie analyzes major voices in the poetic tradition of England, Ireland, and America. His ranging intelligence urges the reader to consider poetry from a different and useful perspective.
Poets on Poetry collects critical books by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.
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Contents
Theme and Action 1
Steep Trajectories 13
A West Riding Boyhood 18
Talking with Millicent Dillon 27
Go Home, Octavio Paz! 49
Art and Anger 52
The Life of Dylan Thomas 63
John Berryman's Freedom of the Poet 66
Lowell's Selected Poems 74
George Steiner on Language 80
Six Notes on Ezra Pound 95
Ezra among the Edwardians 95
Ezra Pound Abandons the English 114
Pound and The Exile 128
Sicily in The Cantos 133
Two Kinds of Magnanimity 143
Ezra Pound and the English 150
A Fascist Poem: Yeats's "Blood and the Moon" 165
John Peck's Shagbark 174
American Literature: The Canon 179
Some Notes on Rhythm in Verse 199
Talking with Dana Gioia 203
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