tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post92690846181913478..comments2024-03-28T19:56:32.848-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `The Great Temptations of My Life'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-30152047891034359622014-12-08T12:42:36.164-06:002014-12-08T12:42:36.164-06:00I enjoyed 'Low Barometer' but there's ...I enjoyed 'Low Barometer' but there's some strange scansion in the last stanza of 'The Affliction of Richard' on the word "shadow" that kind of spoils it.Subbuteohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11263202102536057266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-62961536612594770072014-12-08T03:52:52.531-06:002014-12-08T03:52:52.531-06:00There is an excellent critical book, 'Laureate...There is an excellent critical book, 'Laureates and Heretics' by Robert Archambeau, in which he investigates the genesis of Winters' poetics and his influence on five of his famous and not-so-famous students: Robert Pinsky, Robert Hass, John Peck, John Matthias, and James McMichael. Archambeau makes an interesting case for Winters' early Imagist poetry, and demonstrates how he reacted against the temptations of the Romantic tradition (as he conceived it). It's a highly readable study.Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16094740961722725543noreply@blogger.com