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Other Traditions (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
Other Traditions - Charles Eliot Norton Lectures Author:John Ashbery One of the greatest living poets in English here explores the work of six writers he often finds himself reading in order to get started when writing. Among those whom Ashbery reads at such times are John Clare, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Raymond Roussel, John Wheelwright, Laura Riding, and David Schubert. Less familiar than some, under ... more »Ashberys scrutiny these poets emerge as the powerful but private and somewhat wild voices whose eccentricity has kept them from the mainstream--and whose vision merits Ashberys efforts, and our own, to read them well.« less