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On Poets And Poetry,Used
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William Pritchards 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 interviewers question about what he had learned from his study of other poets by snapping back, Oh, for Christs sake, one doesnt study poets! You read them, and think: Thats marvelous; how is it done? Although Pritchard has been talking with students about poets for more than fifty years, his practice in writing has Larkins question in mind: how to describe convincingly the way its done, the marvelous creations of Tennyson, Hardy, Yeats, Robert Lowell, or Larkin himself. Pritchards aim throughout is to address not only academics but the larger, intelligent audience of nonspecialist readers who look to poetry for the surprise that is central to all imaginative literature.Hugh Kenner, one of three twentiethcentury critics of poetry treated in this book, once wrote that the chief requisite for criticism is not analytic skill but a trained sensibility. William Pritchards sensibility has been trained in the practice of attending to a poets style and voiceof what Robert Frost once called earreading. His endeavor is not to discover hidden, buried treasures (what the poem really means) but to engage with instances of measured language as they reveal themelves, in both the timing of individual poems and the historical time in which poets and poetry live.
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