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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Solid collection with a helpful introduction. The commentary is occasionally interesting. ( ) J.V. Cunningham is an interesting poet, but not, to me, a loveable one. Does a poet have to be loveable? No, decidedly not. Certainly not in the sense of cuddly or adorable. What I guess I mean is “simpatico”. Cunningham does everything he can to be anti-simpatico. From his earliest poems, he expresses a profound distrust of the “will”, which I take to be disorderly impulse, unruly desire. What does he prefer? “… I praise / Far lamps at night, / Cold landmarks for reflection’s gaze. / Distant they still remain, / Oh, unassailed, apart!” Apollo, in other words. Dionysius is just too too. As a result, his poems are often dense, extremely compacted, frequently, at least early in his career, obscure. Slowly, over time, he developed his specialty – the epigram, the ultimate in classical clarity and concision. But these are not the witticisms of Oscar Wilde or Walter Savage Landor (what names for the masters of the merciless bon mot, Wilde & Savage!). Here are three samples from Cunningham: “The ladies in my life, serially sexed, Unscrew one lover and screw in the next.” [The title is “The Lights of Love.”] “Death in this music dwells, I cease to be In this attentive, taut passivity.” “All hastens to its end. If life and love Seem slow it is their ends we’re ignorant of.” There are many interesting (that word again!) things in this collection. Some of these are: (1) Watching Cunningham evolve throughout the course of his first volume “The Helmsman.” (2) The highly simpatico introduction and notes by poet Timothy Steele. (3) Translations of several authors, mostly ancient, whose spirit Cunningham certainly shares. Here’s one example, from Martial: “Sabinus, I don’t like you. You know why? Sabinus, I don’t like you. That is why.” sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"The lifework in verse of one of the finest and liveliest American poets of the twentieth century, this collection of the poems of J.V. Cunningham (1911-1985) documents the poet's development from his early days as an experimental modernist during the Depression to his later emergence as a master of the classical "plain style," distinguished by its wit, feeling, and subtlety." "Often identified with the epigram - a genre in which he excelled as distinctively as Johnson, Herrick, and LandorCunningham also wrote in a wide range of other poetic forms and was as well a remarkable translator. This volume incorporates the materials of his 1971 Collected Poems and Epigrams and adds many of his later poems and translations. Included, too, are some interesting early pieces that appeared in periodicals but have never before been collected in a book."--Jacket. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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