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title Lives of the Modern Poets With a New Preface By the Author - photo 1

title:Lives of the Modern Poets : With a New Preface By the Author
author:Pritchard, William H.
publisher:University Press of New England
isbn10 | asin:0874517877
print isbn13:9780874517873
ebook isbn13:9780585229539
language:English
subjectAmerican poetry--20th century--History and criticism, English poetry--20th century--History and criticism, Modernism (Literature)--United States, Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
publication date:1996
lcc:PS323.5.P7 1996eb
ddc:811/.5209
subject:American poetry--20th century--History and criticism, English poetry--20th century--History and criticism, Modernism (Literature)--United States, Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
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Lives of the Modern Poets
With a New Preface by the Author
William H. Pritchard
Page iv Published by University Press of New England Hanover NH 03755 - photo 2
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Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755
1980 by William H. Pritchard
Originally published in hardcover by Oxford University Press, New York.
First University Press of New England edition, 1997
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1
CIP data appear at the end of the book
Acknowledgment is made for permission to quote from the following works:
Hart Crane: The Complete Poems and Selected Letters and Prose of Hart Crane, copyright 1933, 1958, 1966 by Liveright Publishing Corporation. By permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
T. S. Eliot: Collected Poems 19091962, copyright 1936 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.; copyright 1943, 1964 by T. S. Eliot; copyright 1971 by Esme Valerie Eliot. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., and Faber and Faber Ltd.
Robert Frost: The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem, copyright 1928, 1930, 1934, 1939, 1947, 1969 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston; copyright 1942, 1956, 1958, 1962 by Robert Frost; copyright 1967, 1970, 1975 by Lesley Frost Ballantine. Reprinted by permission of Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Publishers, Jonathan Cape Ltd., and the Estate of Robert Frost.
Thomas Hardy: "Nobody Comes," copyright 1925 by Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., renewed 1953 by Lloyds Bank Ltd.; "Proud Songsters," copyright 1928 by Florence E. Hardy and Sydney E. Cockerell, renewed 1956 by Lloyds Bank Ltd. All selections from Collected Poems, reprinted by permission of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. "Winter in Durnover Field,'' "On the Departure Platform," "The Last Chrysanthemum," "The Going," "The Voice," "After a Journey," "At Castle Boterel," and "The Missed Train" from Collected Poems by Thomas Hardy (New York: Macmillan, 1953).
(Acknowledgments continued on page 318.)
Page v
To my Mother
Page vii
Contents
Preface to the University Press of New England Edition
ix
Acknowledgments
xvii
Introduction
3
I
Thomas Hardy
Circumstantial Satirist
15
II
W. B. Yeats
Theatrical Nobility
49
III
E. A. Robinson
The Prince of Heartachers
83
IV
Robert Frost
Elevated Play
109
V
Ezra Pound
Persistent Explorer
141
VI
T. S. Eliot
Superior Amusement
171
VII
Wallace Stevens
Poet of the Academy
203

Page viii
VIII
Hart Crane
A Fine Messed-Up Life
235
IX
William Carlos
Williams In the American Grain
263
Conclusion
295
A Calendar
299
Critical Works Cited
303
Index
309

Page ix
Preface to the University Press of New England Edition
Randall Jarrell said that a good critic has to be willing to stick his neck out: my decision to write a book about nine poets from earlier in our century, and to title it (with Samuel Johnson in mind) Lives of the Modern Poets, at least reveals a neck stuck out. More than one reviewer of the book seized the opportunity it offered to adverse criticism by noting, among other things, its relative lack (compared to Johnson's Lives) of biographical fact; also its deference, perhaps excessive, to the modern critics who had canonized the nine poets in question. As for the canonized list itself, my friend the late Julian Symons suggested that it was rather odd, in a book about the nine most important modern poets writing in English, to choose seven Americans, an Irishman, and a single EnglishmanThomas Hardy. Even agreeing to my exclusion of Auden as having been born too late (all the chosen poets were born before 1900 and produced much of their significant work in the century's second and third decades), Symons mentioned Kipling, Robert Graves, A. E. Housman, and Wilfred Owen, and wondered if my subject weren't, perhaps, the best
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