A nicely eclectic range, Eileen; I confess I can't read some of these
too easily; if one tends to agree with Perloff, one tends not to agree
with Vendler, I find.
Ricks is always interesting, but certainly somewhat portentous.
In Canada, some of the best essayists on writing are writers: although
I am clearly in a kind of conflict of interest when doing so, I would
recommend the volumes in the Writer-as-Critic series from NeWest Press
by George Bowering, Phyllis Webb, Daphne Marlatt, Fred Wah, & Stan
Dragland, especially. George B's Errata (try Abebooks, I guess; oop
from Red Deer Press)) ids also a delight.
Doug
On 29-May-05, at 1:31 PM, Eileen Abrahams wrote:
> There are many contemporary poetry critics whom I read for the
> pleasure of
> their prose & for the pleasure of their pleasure: Helen Vendler,
> Christopher
> Ricks, Marjorie Perloff, Denis Donahue, David Lehman, Timothy Steele,
> Mark
> Jarmon, to name a few.
>
>
> Eileen Abrahams
> Ph.D. Candidate
> Department of English
> University of Texas at Austin
>
>
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