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ROBERT FROST
The Work of Knowing
Richard Poirier,Rutgers University.
Relying on close readings of Frost's
best poems, Poirier penetrates the
AFTER JOYCE
public persona and demonstrates why
Frost should be ranked among the finest
poets of his time.
288 pp. $11 .95
Studies in Fiction After Ulysses
Robert Martin Adams , University of
America 's most versatile critics, reveals
California, Los Angeles. In an
the ways through which Joyce's
authoritative and provocative examina-
influence was absorbed into the work of
tion of Joyce and his influence on con-
some of the century's greatest writers.
temporary fiction, Adams, one of
225 pp. $10.00
THE COMPOSITION OF FOUR QUARTETS
Dame Helen Gardner, Oxford University.
A distinguished critic probes the
origins and growth of a group of poems
that make up one of the great poetic
achievements of this century.Gardner
FIVE TEMPERAMENTS
looks at Eliot's preliminary drafts, and
explores the historical background as well
as sources in the poet's experience.
272 pp. November $32.50
Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill,
Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery
David Kalstone, Rutgers University. In
at once, evaluations and celebrations,
examining the ways five contemporary
discoveries and corrections of heresy: '
poets have found to write about their
-John Malcolm Brinnin
lives, Kalstone offers readings that "are, 225 pp. $10.95
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