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050 00 $aPR502$b.S35 1999
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100 1 $aSchmidt, Michael,$d1947-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50006754
245 10 $aLives of the poets /$cMichael Schmidt.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf :$bDistributed by Random House,$c1999.
300 $axii, 975 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aOriginally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [941]-958) and index.
520 1 $a"Setting out to write his own homage to Samuel Johnson's legendary Lives of the English Poets of more than two hundred years ago, Michael Schmidt introduces us to the world tradition of poets who have written in English.
520 8 $aFrom the rustic rhythms of Piers Plowman to today's postmodernists, from fifteenth-century Scotland to the contemporary Caribbean, Schmidt explores the lives and creations of more than three hundred poets, discussing their best (and sometimes worst) poems, their triumphs and tragedies, their individual genius. Here is the shared universe and work of so many great poets, including Chaucer, Donne, Blake, Behn, Burns, Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson, Rossetti, Yeats, Stevens, Lowell, Bishop, Ginsberg, Rich and Heaney, to name but a few.
520 8 $aSchmidt also embraces the extraordinary poetry now emerging from Australia, New Zealand, India and other countries, and shows how these varied landscapes and cultures make their contributions to our common language.".
520 8 $a"Tracing the themes and achievements of each poet's work, Schmidt demonstrates with wit and erudition how poets overshadow and inspire one another across the centuries. En route, he champions some unjustly neglected voices and outlines the ways in which history and politics intervene to shape (or sometimes misshape) the poetic imagination."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEnglish poetry$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043948
650 0 $aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117586
650 0 $aPoets, American$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010106634
650 0 $aPoets, English$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010106635
852 00 $bbar$hPR502$i.S35 1999