02232nam a22003017i 4500 20261016202624.0 261016s1998 xx ||||| |||||||| p|eng d 9780231111720 023111172X (KOHALIB)isbn-9780231111720 KOHALIB eng rda KOHALIB 811.54 23 McClatchy, J. D. Twenty questions : (posed by poems) / J. D. McClatchy. New York : Columbia University Press, 1998. 200 pages text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier In Twenty Questions, one of America's finest poet-critics leads readers into the mysteries of poetry: how it draws on our lives, and how it leads us back into them. In a series of linked essays progressing from the autobiographical to the critical - and closing with a remarkable translation of Horace's Ars Poetica unavailable elsewhere - J. D. McClatchy's latest book offers an intimate and illuminating look into the poetic mind. McClatchy begins with a portrait of his development as a poet, and provides vibrant details about some of those who helped shape his sensibility - from Anne Sexton in her final days, to Harold Bloom, his enigmatic teacher at Yale, to James Merrill, a wise and witty mentor. All of these glimpses into McClatchy's personal history enhance our understanding of a coming of age from ingenuous reader to accomplished poet-critic. Later sections range through poetry past and present - from Emily Dickinson to Seamus Heaney and W. S. Merwin - with incisive criticism generously interspersed with vivid anecdotes about McClatchy's encounters with other poets' lives and work. A critical unpacking of Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Miss Blount," for instance, is interwoven with a compassionate psychological portrait of a brilliant poet plagued by both romantic longings and debilitating physical deformities. Inventory: Single copy, entry 497; recorded quantity 1; damaged N/A Authorship Poetry Lyrik Aufsatzsammlung Poetry (Poetic Works by One Author) BOOK ddc 485 485 0 0 ddc 0 0 POETRY MAIN MAIN 2026-10-16 0 811.54 MCC LIB01928 2026-10-16 20:26:24 2026-10-16 BOOK