I wasn't able to find a single Tuckerman poem on the web, though I
did find some Very, which struck me as smooth but conventional, and
far less interesting than Whittier, say, who isn't all that
interesting. I remain skeptical (Winters' taste was pretty much
Winters' taste) but willing to learn. Could someone post a favorite Tuckerman?
Mark
At 12:20 PM 7/2/2007, you wrote:
>Ben Mazer is editing the complete Tuckerman.
>
>Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Can't say I know
>which were the standard anthologies. Scott Momaday's 1965
>Oxford UP edition of the complete Tuckerman couldn't be ignored when I was
>at Stanford. I just retrieved my copy of "Jonas Very: Selected Poems"
>Rutgers UP, 1966, though perhaps a year ago I didn't get very far when I
>tried to read it. Suspect poems by Tuckerman & Very may be in Winters &
>Fields' 1968 anthology "Quest for Reality".
>
>Barry
>
>On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 11:25:36 -0400, Mark Weiss
>wrote:
>
> >They must have seemed pretty odd at the time. Did either of them make
> >it into any of the standard anthologies?
> >
> >Mark
> >
> >At 10:18 AM 7/2/2007, you wrote:
> >>Yvor Winters once wrote:
> >>
> >>"F.G. Tuckerman was one of the three most remarkable poets of the
> >>nineteenth century. The others were Jonas Very and Emily Dickinson."
> >>
> >>Since I had never heard of Tuckerman & Very when I encountered this
>dictum,
> >>I probably responded with laughter, though later I learned there were
>quite
> >>a number of true believers. N. Scott Momaday was one, and I suspect poet
> >>laureates Robert Pinsky and Robert Hass were too, at least for a while.
> >>Nineteenth century American lit was never my field, but even today I own
> >>editions of the work of Very and Tuckerman, at least partly because I
> >>respect the collectibility of the Wintersians, no matter how odd some of
> >>the evaluations may seem today.
> >>
> >>Barry Alpert
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