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The Long View : Essays On the Discipline of Hope and Poetic Craft
author
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Pack, Robert.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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0870237616
print isbn13
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9780870237614
ebook isbn13
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9780585224589
language
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English
subject
Poetry--History and criticism.
publication date
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1991
lcc
:
PS3531.A17L66 1991eb
ddc
:
809.1
subject
:
Poetry--History and criticism.
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The Long View
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Books by Robert Pack
POETRY The Irony of Joy A Stranger's Privilege Guarded by Women Home from the Cemetery Nothing but Light Keeping Watch Waking to My Name: New and Selected Poems Faces in a Single Tree: A Cycle of Monologues Clayfeld Rejoices, Clayfeld Laments: A Sequence of Poems Before It Vanishes: A Packet for Professor Pagels Inheritance: Reflections on a Gene Pool
POETRY FOR CHILDREN The Forgotten Secret Then What Did You Do? How to Catch a Crocodile The Octopus Who Wanted to Juggle
ESSAYS Wallace Stevens: An Introduction to His Poetry and Thought Affirming Limits: Essays on Mortality, Choice, and Poetic Form
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The Long View
Essays on the Discipline of Hope and Poetic Craft
Robert Pack
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Copyright 1991 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved LC 91-13598 ISBN O-87023-761-6 Set in Trump Medieval by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pack, Robert, 1929 The long view: essays on the discipline of hope and poetic craft / Robert Pack. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-87023-761-6 I. Title. PS3531.A17L66 1991 809.1-dc20 91-13598 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available
"The Idea in the Mirror" first appeared in Kenyon Review 9, no. 4 (1987); "The Long View" first appeared in Kenyon Review 12, no. 4 (1990); "The Poetry of Inheritance" first appeared in The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Essays (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1989); "On Wording," ''On Sincerity and Skill," "On Experience," "On Prowess and Revision," "On Grace," and "On Fame" first appeared in Writers on Writing: A Bread Loaf Anthology (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1991).
Acknowledgments for permission to reprint material under copyright appear on the last printed page of this book.
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For Stanley and Virginia Bates and my colleagues at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference who listened summer after summer and from whom I have learned
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CONTENTS
Preface
ix
I
The Idea in the Mirror: Reflections on the Consciousness of Consciousness
3
The Poetry of Inheritance
31
Laughter at the Abyss: Hardy and Robinson
71
II
On Wording
17
On Sincerity and Skill
120
On Experience
124
On Prowess and Revision
127
On Grace
130
On Fame
132
On Looking
135
On Humility
138
On Lying and Nonsense
141
On Ecstasy
145
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On Fire
150
On Empathy
157
On Desire and Sublimation
163
On Nothing
171
III
The Long View: Darwin and the Book of Job
181
Comfort and Comforters: Job and His Inheritors
208
Betrayal and Nothingness: The Book of Job and King Lear
25
Index
277
Page ix
PREFACE
The essays in The Long View, including the shorter meditations in the second section, are intended to be complete in themselves, and yet I hope that an attentive reader will feel that they are united by recurrent themes: the doubling of human awareness so that we know and, further, we know we know; the analogy between the discipline required in poetic craft and the imaginative discipline required in limiting what we allow ourselves to hope for in our quest for meaning and purpose; the consolations that help us to survive, which are to be found in the related pleasures of poetry, laughter, and music.
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