I wonder how much else has surfaced since Momaday's work, supervised by
Winters.
Ron Silliman may be interested to learn that the dusk jacket text
for "Jonas Very: Selected Poems" begins
"A New Englander, a Unitarian minister, and a Quietist . . ."
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 09:20:35 -0700, joe green <[log in to unmask]> 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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