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Proofs & Theories Essays on Poetry

Paperback • 1999 • English

Proofs & Theories Essays on Poetry

By Louise Glück

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About the book

Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020Louise Gluck's award-winning collection of essays is the work of a major poet and a distinguished teacher. She writes of her upbringing, her human and literary antecedents, and she dwells with a scrupulous eye on details of lives and poems, until she comes to understand them.The act of integrity involved in the essays is part and parcel of this poet's unsparing candour. Her criticism takes risks and can be fierce passionate, merciless to its subject...Show more

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ISBN

9781857543902

Publisher

Carcanet

Published year

1999

Language

English

Original title

Proofs & Theories Essays on Poetry

Format

Paperback

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