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Description: "Poet, translator, essayist and voracious reader--Kenneth Rexroth was an omnivore in the fields of literature. The brief, radiant essays of Classics Revisted discuss sixty key books that are, for Rexroth, "basic documents in the history of the imagination." Ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Huckleberry Finn, these pieces (each three or four pages long) originally appeared in the Saturday Review."--Page 4 of cover.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1986]
Call number: 660934
Creator: Rexroth, Kenneth (1905-1982)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 0811209873; 9780811209878

The complete poems of Kenneth Rexroth

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Kenneth Rexroth is a poet of enormous achievement. The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth assembles all of his published longer and shorter poems, and includes a never-before-published selection of his earliest work. Rexroth's poems of nature and protest are remarkable for their erudition and biting social and political commentary; his love poems justly celebrated for their eroticism and depth of feeling. This is the definitive Rexroth volume.

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The collected shorter poems

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This volume brings together all of Kenneth Rexroth's shorter poems from 1920 to the present, including a group of new poems written since the publication of Natural Numbers, drawn from seven earlier books. Among the American poets of the generation that came to prominence in the Forties, Kenneth Rexroth has been notable both for the independence of his personal voice and for his accessibility to the tradition of international avant-garde literature. He began writing and publishing in magazines at fifteen. His earliest work was personal and concrete, much like that of the Imagists. In his twenties he wrote in the disassociative style--sometimes called "literary cubism "--developed by Mallarmé, Apollinaire, and Reverdy. This was not free association, but the conscious disassociation and recombination of the elements of the poem to achieve the highest possible level of significance. With his later books Rexroth moved back to a direct and classically simple form of personal statement. In this period he wrote the great nature poems, the love poems, and the contemplative lyrics that have established his reputation as one of the most important American poets.

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American poetry in the twentieth century

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One of America's leading poets and critics offers a major interpretation of the poetry and poets of modern America, from the radical bohemians at the turn of the century through the leftist poets of the twenties, the reactionaries of the thirties and forties, the gradual emergence of the San Francisco school after the Second World War, to the more recent poetry of Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, Gary Snyder. It is a work of re-experiencing the poems themselves, and in the process Kenneth Rexroth provides a controversial new look at the standard authors and boldly redefines the value of such poets as Levertov, Moore, and Lowell. This new paperback edition has been supplemented by a complete index of poets and a list of suggested readings. --back cover.

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The Uruguay (a historical romance of South America) : the Sir Richard F. Burton translation, Huntington Library manuscript HM 27954

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"The Brazilian epic poem 'O Uraguai,' first published in Lisbon in 1769, caught the imagination of Sir Richard F. Burton during his service as Her Majesty's consul in Santos between 1865 and 1868. The great translator of the 'Arabian Nights' and of Camoen's 'Lusiads' saw in this poem a tragic depiction of the theme of cultural conflict so prominent in his own work. Burton's verse translation, both a faithful rendering of the original and a worthy achievement in its own right, is still the sole English version. This edition finally brings the translation to light...This edition is based on the manuscript now in the Huntington Library. It includes the translator's preface, his biography of Gama, and his critical analysis of the poem, along with the original Portuguese text. An introduction by the editors discusses the historical and literary context of the poem and relates the curious history of the manuscript, revealing new aspects of the life and thought of the most famous translator in modern British letters"--dust jacket.

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Patagonia revisited

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"Since its discovery by Magellan in 1520, Patagonia has retained its fascination as a metaphor for The Ultimate. Here Bruce Chatwin and Paul Theroux join forces in a literary quest for some of the instances in which these 'final capes of exile' have affected the literary imagination. This lively and delightful curio had its origins in an entertainment the two writers gave for The Royal Geographical Society, at a time when Paul Theroux was following Bruce Chatwin's 'In Patagonia' with 'The Old Patagonian Express'"--Publisher's description, jacket flap.

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Beyond the mountains

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""Phaedra" and "Iphigenia at Aulis," set in the Greek heroic age, are recastings of old familiar myths, while "Hermaios" and "Berenike" (collectively called "Beyond the Mountains") take place at the start of the Christian era, in Hellenized Bactria, in the foothills of the present-day Hindu Kush. In substance, the plays are Rexroth's personal interperation of the elemental values of Greek civilization ..."--Publisher description

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