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  1. How poets see the world
    the art of description in contemporary poetry
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, New York [u.a.]

    "Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book examines how a variety of contemporary poets use description in their... more

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    "Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book examines how a variety of contemporary poets use description in their work."--BOOK JACKET.

     

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  2. How poets see the world
    the art of description in contemporary poetry
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, New York [u.a.]

    "Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book examines how a variety of contemporary poets use description in their... more

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    "Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book examines how a variety of contemporary poets use description in their work."--BOOK JACKET.

     

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  3. How poets see the world
    the art of description in contemporary poetry
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York

    How do poets see the world? What are they looking for? How do they transcribe their vision and make poems out of their observations? This work looks at poets (John Ashbery, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Charles Tomlinson, and Charles Wright), with an... more

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    How do poets see the world? What are they looking for? How do they transcribe their vision and make poems out of their observations? This work looks at poets (John Ashbery, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Charles Tomlinson, and Charles Wright), with an eye to explain the art of description in poetry

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0195174917; 9780195174915
    Subjects: American poetry; Nature in literature; Art in literature; Ekphrasis; Visual perception in literature; Landscape in literature; Vision in literature; Description (Rhetoric); Art and literature; American poetry ; 20th century ; History and criticism; Art and literature ; United States; Description (Rhetoric) ; History ; 20th century; Landscapes in literature; Nature in literature; Vision in literature; Visual perception in literature; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (xi, 238 p), 25 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-217) and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Contents; ONE: "The Way Things Look Each Day": Poetry, Description, Nature; TWO: "Just Looking": Charles Tomlinson and the "Labour of Observation"; THREE: What to Make of an Augmented Thing: Amy Clampitt's Syntactic Dramas; FOUR: Charles Wright and "The Metaphysics of the Quotidian"; FIVE: "A Space for Boundless Revery": Varieties of Ekphrastic Experience; SIX: John Ashbery's Haunted Landscapes; SEVEN: Jorie Graham's "New Way of Looking"; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

  4. How poets see the world
    the art of description in contemporary poetry
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

  5. How poets see the world
    the art of description in contemporary poetry
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York

    Spiegelman looks closely at a handful of contemporary poets including John Ashbery, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Charles Tomlinson and Charles Wright, to illustrate the art of description in poetry more

     

    Spiegelman looks closely at a handful of contemporary poets including John Ashbery, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Charles Tomlinson and Charles Wright, to illustrate the art of description in poetry

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1423746104; 9781423746102; 1280428228; 9781280428227; 9780198039006; 019803900X; 1602565163; 9781602565166
    Subjects: American poetry / 20th century / History and criticism; Vision in literature; Description (Rhetoric) / History / 20th century; Art and literature / United States; Visual perception in literature; Landscapes in literature; Nature in literature; Art in literature; Ekphrasis; American poetry; Art and literature; Description (Rhetoric); History and criticism; Landscape in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry; American poetry / (OCoLC)fst00807348; Art and literature / (OCoLC)fst00815400; Art in literature / (OCoLC)fst00815566; Description (Rhetoric) / (OCoLC)fst00891119; Ekphrasis / (OCoLC)fst00904124; Landscapes in literature / (OCoLC)fst01899802; Nature in literature / (OCoLC)fst01034680; Vision in literature / (OCoLC)fst01167902; Visual perception in literature / (OCoLC)fst01168077
    Scope: 1 online resource (xi, 238 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index

    The way things look each day : how poets see the world -- Just looking : Charles Tomlinson and the "labour of observation" -- What to make of an augmented thing : Amy Clampitt's syntactic dramas -- Charles Wright and "the metaphysics of the quotidian" -- A space for boundless revery : varieties of ekphrastic experience -- John Ashbery's haunted landscapes -- Jorie Graham's "new way of looking."