Laureates and Heretics: Six Careers in American Poetry

by Robert Archambeau

Robert Archambeau examines the influence of the poet and critic Yvor Winters on his final generation of graduate students at Stanford in the early 1960s: Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, James McMichael, John Matthias, and John Peck. Archambeau divides the poets into two groups, laureates and heretics. Hass and Pinsky, each of whom served multiple terms as United Sates Poet Laureate, achieved both popular recognition and institutional renown. In contrast,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268020361
• ISBN13: 9780268020361
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"