A Company of Poets

by Louis Simpson

This is a collection of essays, reviews, and interviews in which the author, himself a distinguished poet, expresses his ideas about the nature of poetry and criticizes his contemporaries. Simpson takes his stand with the "poetry of feeling" and agrees with Woodsworth that poetry should be written in a selection of the language "really spoken by men." His reviews of American poets who have since become famous show Simpson to be an acute an innovative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047206326X
• ISBN13: 9780472063260
• Release Date: March 1981
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 368 Pages