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10 best books like Selected Prose (T.S. Eliot): The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination, Selected Poems, Selected Poems, The Blue Estuaries, Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry, T.S. Eliot, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry, The Pound Era, Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, The Redress of Poetry

The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
AuthorWallace Stevens
ISBN0394702786
In this collection of essays, consummate poet Wallace Stevens reflects upon his art. His aim is not to produce a work of criticism or philosophy, or a mere discussion of poetic technique. As he explains in his introduction, his ambition in these various pieces, published in different times and places,...
Selected Poems
AuthorLouis MacNeice
ISBN0571233813
'I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.'
Louis MacNeice's prescription...
Selected Poems
AuthorJohn Ashbery
ISBN0140585532
From the early virtuosity of Some Trees and The Tennis Court Oath through the triumphs of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror to the brilliance of A Wave - each collection of John Ashbery's verse has broken new ground. Now, from the whole range of a lifetime's work, Ashbery has...
The Blue Estuaries
AuthorLouise Bogan
ISBN0374524610
I found one truly memorable poem in the collection, a sharp observation transformed by a peculiar sensibility, a formula advocated elsewhere in the book but rarely followed. Even in this instance, the poem would have been better served if the last line had been removed.

Roman Fountain

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Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry
AuthorRobert Hass
U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass considers some of the twentiethcentury poets who bring him pleasure: Robert Lowll, JamesWright, Tomas Transtromer, Joseph Brodsky, Yvor Winters,Robert Creeley, James McMichael, Czeslaw Milosz, and others,in this, his first collection of essays. Originally published...
T.S. Eliot
AuthorPeter Ackroyd
ISBN0140171126
In the twentieth century, no Anglo-American poet or critic has matched the influence of Thomas Stearns Eliot. Despite his political and religious conservatism, Eliot was among the most innovative of the literary modernists, a figure to be reckoned with by admirers and critics alike. In his Whitbread...
The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
AuthorCleanth Brooks
ISBN0156957051
In my freshman year of college, I remembered reading Brooks' essay on Keats: A Sylvan Historian, I was completely engulfed with Mr. Brooks interpretation of the poem. It gave me a different perspective on how to further analyze Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn. Moreover, when I read the essay, I felt like I...
The Pound Era
AuthorHugh Kenner
ISBN0520024273
"Hugh Kenner's The Pound Era could as well be known as the Kenner era, for there is no critic who has more firmly established his claim to valuable literary property than has Kenner to the first three decades of the 20th century in England. Author of pervious studies of Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis...
Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
AuthorEzra Pound
ISBN0811201570
This collection of essays, edited by Pound's friend and fellow poet T.S. Eliot, contains essays from five earlier volumes: Pavannes and Divisions (1918), Instigations(1920), How to Read(1931), Make it New(1934), and Polite Essays(1937). The thirty-three essays contained in this collection...
The Redress of Poetry
AuthorSeamus Heaney
ISBN0374248532
This might seem an odd choice: a collection of lectures about poetry, some of them to an Oxford audience. Sounds stuffy as can be - but it isn't. Wherever they were first heard, each lecture was written to be understood by anyone, and send them back to the works they cover.

The best piece, and perhaps...
Poetry and the Age
AuthorRandall Jarrell
ISBN0813021081
About Poetry and the Age:

"Perhaps the most comprehensive and certainly the most detailed of all studies of modern poetry."-- Delmore Schwartz, New York Times Book Review

"Randall Jarrell’s book about poetry and the criticism of poetry pulls the bung-cork out of the barrel. The...
Critical Terms for Literary Study
AuthorFrank Lentricchia
ISBN0226472035
Since its publication in 1990, Critical Terms for Literary Study has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theory—giving tens of thousands of students an unparalleled encounter with what it means to do theory and criticism. Significantly expanded, this new edition features six...
The Dyer's Hand
AuthorW.H. Auden
ISBN0679724842
In this volume, W. H. Auden assembled, edited, and arranged the best of his prose writing, including the famous lectures he delivered as Oxford Professor of Poetry. The result is less a formal collection of essays than an extended and linked series of observations—on poetry, art, and the observation...
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
AuthorEdmund Wilson
ISBN0374529272
Published in 1931, Axel's Castle was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism--a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six major twentieth-century writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust,...
The Collected Prose
AuthorElizabeth Bishop
ISBN0374518556
Presented in two sections, "Memory: Persons and Places" and "Stories," this book offers the collected prose writings of Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79), one of America's most celebrated and admired poets. The selections are arranged not by date of compostion, but in biographical order, such that reading...
Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930
AuthorMalcolm Bradbury
ISBN0140138323
History

Any reader of literary fiction from the last 120 years will sooner or later encounter the distinction between Modernism and Post-Modernism.

My teenage years coincided with the 1970's. During this period I became a consumer and advocate of Modernism, whether or not I could...
Collected Poems
AuthorStevie Smith
ISBN0811208826
This New Directions Paperbook brings back into print the 1975 Oxford University Press edition of Stevie Smith’s Collected Poems, her complete poetic works edited by her long-time friend James MacGibbon. "On gray days when most modern poetry seems one dull colorless voice speaking through a hundred...
Selected Writings
AuthorGertrude Stein
ISBN0679724648
"This collection, a retrospective exhibit of the work of a woman who created a unique place for herself in the world of letters, contains a sample of practically every period and every manner in Gertrude Stein's career. It includes The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in its entirety; selected passages...
Into the Looking-Glass Wood: Essays on Books, Reading, and the World
AuthorAlberto Manguel
ISBN0156012650
Alberto Manguel has enchanted hundreds of thousands of readers with his bestselling books, including The Dictionary of Imaginary Places. Now he has assembled a personal collection of his own essays that will enchant anyone interested in reading, writing, or the world. Through personal stories...
A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century
AuthorCristina Nehring
ISBN0060765038
"A fierce and lively book. . . .This is one of those rare books that could make people think about their intimate lives in a new way." — New York Times Book Review

“A rousing defense of imprudent ardor and romantic excess. . . . It’s difficult to deny that [Nehring] is on to something.” —...
Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature
AuthorIris Murdoch
ISBN0140264922
Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collected here for the first time in one volume are her most influential literary and philosophical essays. Tracing Murdoch's journey to a modern Platonism, this...
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