On Poets and Poetry Pritchard Paperback John Wiley & Sons 9780804011150

On Poets and PoetryAuthor(s): William H. Pritchard\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Ohio University Press, United States\nImprint: Swallow Press\nISBN-13: 9780804011150, 978-0804011150\nSynopsis\nWilliam Pritchard's collection of essays and reviews on poets and poetry ranges from Dryden and Milton through the major American and British poets of the last century. One of them, Philip Larkin, answered an interviewer's question about what he had learned from his study of other poets by snapping back, \""Oh, for Christ's sake, one doesn't study poets! You read them, and think: That's marvelous; how is it done?\"" Although Pritchard has been talking with students about poets for more than fifty years, his practice in writing has Larkin's question in mind: how to describe convincingly the way it's done, the \""marvelous\"" creations of Tennyson, Hardy, Yeats, Robert Lowell, or Larkin himself. Pritchard's aim throughout is to address not only academics but the larger, intelligent audience of non-s.