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New and classic essays by one of Americas most distinguished contemporarypoetcritics The Work of Poetry surveys an extraordinary range of poets fromDante to May Swenson and George Meredith to Marianne Moore as well as worksfrom the Psalms to A Childs Garden of Verses. By turns generous anduncompromising Hollander champions the enduring force of poetry against theincursion of fashionable writing. This is an elegant uncompromisingaffirmation of the extraordinary powers of poetic imagination from a poet whosepoems have been hailed by J.D. McClatchy as ways of thinking on paper. «
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