Read From Feathers to Iron: A Lecture Delivered at the Library of Congress, May 12, 1975, by Stanley Kunitz, Consultant in Poetry in English at the Library, 1974-76

From Feathers to Iron: A Lecture Delivered at the Library of Congress, May 12, 1975, by Stanley Kunitz, Consultant in Poetry in English at the Library, 1974-76

Stanley Kunitz

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Description:Beginning with Keats' conceit of each mind as a self-contained universe turning on an axis linking the poles of what it most affirms and what it most denies ("We take but three steps from feathers to iron"), Kunitz explores various aspects of the mind's power "to transform, to connect, to communicate." Kunitz is convinced that "at the center of every poetic imagination is a cluster of key images which go back to the poet's childhood and which are usually associated with pivotal experiences, not necessarily traumatic." Poetry happens when fresh thoughts and sensations enter the mind and react with these images. Drawing on the work of poets Coleridge, Blake, and Yeats, the painter Picasso, the philosopher Henri Bergson, and even Taoist and Buddhist doctrine, Kunitz comes to the conclusion that poets are to be trusted only when they are thinking through their senses, and that the axis of contraries that Keats wrote of is evidence that poets see themselves as resisting apathy, mediocrity, conformity, and institutional pressures to make everything look and become alike. Poets are subversives, but are concerned not with changing others, but with changing themselves.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with From Feathers to Iron: A Lecture Delivered at the Library of Congress, May 12, 1975, by Stanley Kunitz, Consultant in Poetry in English at the Library, 1974-76. To get started finding From Feathers to Iron: A Lecture Delivered at the Library of Congress, May 12, 1975, by Stanley Kunitz, Consultant in Poetry in English at the Library, 1974-76, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Library of Congress

Release: 1975

ISBN: 0844402001

Description: Beginning with Keats' conceit of each mind as a self-contained universe turning on an axis linking the poles of what it most affirms and what it most denies ("We take but three steps from feathers to iron"), Kunitz explores various aspects of the mind's power "to transform, to connect, to communicate." Kunitz is convinced that "at the center of every poetic imagination is a cluster of key images which go back to the poet's childhood and which are usually associated with pivotal experiences, not necessarily traumatic." Poetry happens when fresh thoughts and sensations enter the mind and react with these images. Drawing on the work of poets Coleridge, Blake, and Yeats, the painter Picasso, the philosopher Henri Bergson, and even Taoist and Buddhist doctrine, Kunitz comes to the conclusion that poets are to be trusted only when they are thinking through their senses, and that the axis of contraries that Keats wrote of is evidence that poets see themselves as resisting apathy, mediocrity, conformity, and institutional pressures to make everything look and become alike. Poets are subversives, but are concerned not with changing others, but with changing themselves.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with From Feathers to Iron: A Lecture Delivered at the Library of Congress, May 12, 1975, by Stanley Kunitz, Consultant in Poetry in English at the Library, 1974-76. To get started finding From Feathers to Iron: A Lecture Delivered at the Library of Congress, May 12, 1975, by Stanley Kunitz, Consultant in Poetry in English at the Library, 1974-76, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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From Feathers to Iron: A Lecture Delivered at the Library of Congress, May 12, 1975, by Stanley Kunitz, Consultant in Poetry in English at the Library, 1974-76

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