The Ordering Mirror: Readers and ContextsFordham Univ Press, 1993 - 304 psl. In 1977, Bennington College alumna Edith Barbour Andrews established the Ben Belitt Lectureships in gratitude to her teacher Ben Belitt and dedicated the publication of the lectures (in the form of chapbooks) to the memory of William Troy, another of her beloved teachers. The collection, published here in one volume, comprises lectures by some of the most inspiring writers and keenest critics of our time. In his introduciton to The Ordering Mirror, Phillip Lopate contrasts the anticipations and the audience/lecturer dynamic inherent in attending yearly lecture, with the experience of reading them, and the opportunity for reflection and comparison. Lopate summarizes that, "It is enough to appreciate that we are watching masters of the game of essay-writing, who, even as they comment on the masterpieces of other writers, practice their own wizardry." The volume includes: George Steiner, "The Uncommon Reader" (1978) |
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... , Belitt gained international recognition as a poet , critic , and translator , garnering prizes and honors for his six volumes of poetry , culminating in a collection of " new and selected poems " published in 1986 under.
Readers and Contexts. " new and selected poems " published in 1986 under the many- faceted title of Possessions . His extensive translations of Borges , Alberti , Neruda , Lorca , and others , and his collection of essays dealing with ...
... poems of others , or at best of his own ideas . But he ironically adapts himself to this smallness - the eternal smallness of the most profound work of the intellect in face of life - and even emphasizes it with ironic modesty ...
... poems his genius lies , he performs an act of reclamation much more gen- erous and effective than hagiographic criticism . Then there is Harold Bloom's powerful reading of Whitman's " When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd ...
... poem their meaning , their meaning of meaning . Schooling today , notably in the United States , is planned amnesia . ) The sinews of memory can only be made taut where there is silence , the silence so explicit in Chardin's portrait ...
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Whitmans Image of Voice | 42 |
The Politics of Modern Criticism | 72 |
The Making of a Critic | 93 |
Wilde Yeats Joyce | 115 |
Long Work Short Life | 134 |
Three Spiritual Exercises | 147 |
Summations | 164 |
Magic and Spells | 182 |
Nabokov on Cruelty | 198 |
Collective Violence and Sacrifice in Shakespeares Julius Caesar | 221 |
Fiction Morals and Politics | 243 |
Dylan the Durable? On Dylan Thomas | 255 |
What Henry James Knew | 276 |