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Richard Howard has been writing stylish, deeply informed commentary on modern culture and literature for more than four decades. Here is a selection of his finest essays, including some never before published in book form, on a splendid range of subjects--from American poets like Emily Dickinson and Marianne Moore to French artists such as Rodin and Michel Delacroix. Also included are considerations of modern sculpture and of the photography of the human body. Howard's intense familiarity with modern poetry is seen to excellent effect in essays on the "poetry of forgetting," on the causes and effects of experimental poetry, and on the first books of poets whose work he helped introduce--among them, J. D. McClatchy, Frank Bidart, and Cynthia MacDonald. Of course, Howard brings to his consideration of French literature a rare wisdom drawn from his celebrated work as a translator of Stendhal and Gide, Barthes and Cocteau, Yourcenar and Gracq.
Hilton Kramer once wrote that Richard Howard "performs the essential critical service. He shows us the extent of the terrain. He points out its essential features. And he gives us a very vivid sense of its ethos as well as of its esthetics." Howard, now in his seventy-fifth year, continues his adroit, inventive commentary, which enriches us all.
Hilton Kramer once wrote that Richard Howard "performs the essential critical service. He shows us the extent of the terrain. He points out its essential features. And he gives us a very vivid sense of its ethos as well as of its esthetics." Howard, now in his seventy-fifth year, continues his adroit, inventive commentary, which enriches us all.
Richard Howard has been writing stylish, deeply informed commentary on modern culture and literature for more than four decades. Here is a selection of his finest essays, including some never before published in book form, on a splendid range of subjects--from American poets like Emily Dickinson ...
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Richard Howard (1929-2022) was a poet, essayist, translator, and editor, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his poetry collection Untitled Subjects. His renowned translations of Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Tzvetan Todorov introduced them and many other French writers to English readers. The poet laureate of New York State from 1993 to 1995, Howard was also a writing professor in the School of the Arts at Columbia University and taught English at the University of Houston.
Howard's books include Paper Trail: Selected Prose, 1965-2003, Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003, Alone With America: The Art of Poetry in the United States Since 1950, and A Progressive Education.
Richard Howard (1929-2022) was a poet, essayist, translator, and editor, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his poetry collection Untitled Subjects. His renowned translations of Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Tzvetan Todorov introduced them and many other French writers to ...
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