Contributor
Bloom, Harold.
Imprint:New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1986.
Descriptionxii, 483 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:Includes index.
Note:Robert Penn Warren: modes and ranges of a long dawn / John Hollander. - Robert Fitzgerald: the poetry of Robert Fitzgerald / Harold Bloom. - Elizabeth Bishop: Elizabeth Bishop's dream-houses / David Bromwich. - Gwendolyn Brooks: A Street in Bronzeville, the Harlem Renaissance and the mythologies of black women / Gary Smith. - Robert Duncan: a memoir and a critical tribute / Denise Levertov. - May Swenson: "turned back to the wild by love" / Richard Howard. - Richard Wilbur: Richard Wilbur's world / Robert B. Shaw. - Anthony Hecht: the poetry of Anthony Hecht / Ashley Brown. - James Dickey: from "The Other" through The Early Motion / Harold Bloom. - Denise Levertov: inside and outside in the poetry of Densie Levertov / Diana Collecott. - Kenneth Koch: Kenneth Koch / John Hollander. - A. R. Ammons: "When You Consider the Radiance" / Harold Bloom. - James Merrill: lost paradises / J. D. McClatchy. - Allen Ginsberg: bound each to each / Diane Middlebrook. - Galway Kinnell: "The Rank Flavor of Blood" / Charles Molesworth. - John Ashbery: a magma of interiors / Alfred Corn. - W. S. Merwin: the new transcendentalism: the visionary strain in Merwin / Harold Bloom. - James Wright: "The Body Wakes to Burial" / Richard Howard. - Irving Feldman: "Who will call these things his own?" / Richard Howard. - Adrienne Rich: ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds / Helen Vendler. - Robert Pack: Robert Pack / Paul Mariani. - John Hollander: the sound and sense of the sleight-of-hand man / David Lehman. - Alvin Feinman: preambles to what was possible / Harold Bloom. - Gary Snyder: the work of Gary Snyder / Crunk. - Mark Strand: negative capability / Linda Gregerson. - Amiri Baraka: the changing same: black music in the poetry of Amiri Baraka / Nate Mackey. - Jay Wright: "The Aching Prodigal": Jay Wright's dutiful poet / Robert B. Stepto. - Daryl Hine: fabulous traveler / John Hollander.
Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. 451-465.
Note:Critical essays on the works of twenty-eight modern American poets.
