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The Art of Language: Selected Essays
This volume gathers twenty-four essays by the English critic Kenneth Cox (1916-2005) on various writers, including James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Basil Bunting, Louis Zukofsky, and Lorine Niedecker. In each case, Cox's exposition proves rigorous, idiosyncratic, drily passionate, and full of keen insights. Always, he proceeds with an "emphasis on literature as the art of language."
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"As pure writing--literature, if you will--his essays deserve to be read and reread as one would those of William Hazlitt or Joseph Mitchell. They refresh and delight. They are a tonic for the mind and are best approached in the morning hours; one's entire day will be the better for it. Meanwhile, as proposition, explication, and argument of any given text, they are without equal."--August Kleinzahler, from his afterword
Book Details
- Publisher: Flood Editions
- Publish Date: Jul 25th, 2016
- Pages: 328
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.40in - 6.00in - 0.90in - 1.10lb
- EAN: 9780990340775
- Categories: • Poetry• English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Praise for this book
"I have learned more from Kenneth Cox's essays than from any other living critic of twentieth-century poetry. He writes with masterly directness about the masters of indirection, and his summarizing power rivals that of Samuel Johnson."--Thom Gunn
"Cox's collected reviews emanate polished minimalism and regal authority of voice."--Publishers Weekly
"Even his earliest essays are marked by a confidence, precision, and erudition that could only come from a lifetime of extraordinarily acute reading."--Robert P. Baird, The Paris Review Daily
"Kenneth Cox's The Art of Language (Flood Editions) is a complex collection of essays on modernist prose and poetry. The anthology collects monographs on leviathans like Joyce, Conrad, Yeats, and Pound, as well as on Cox's contemporaries--such as Black Mountain poet Robert Creeley, Objectivist Lorine Niedecker, and Basil Bunting. Most profoundly, the collection is an exploration of the power and structure of poetic language."--Jacob Kiernan, The Kenyon Review