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Availability:In StockContributor:Kenneth RexrothSeries:Revived Modern ClassicPublish date:1989-03-17Pages:164
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811210836ISBN-10:811210839UPC:9780811210836Book Category:Literary Criticism, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:European, Essays, Ancient and ClassicalBook Topic:Eastern (see also Russian & Soviet)Size:8.49 x 5.57 x 0.41 inchesWeight:0.4894Product ID:SCQA47G1J4
More Classics Revisited is the second volume of the late poet and polymath Kenneth Rexroth's brilliant, succinct analyses of some of the key documents in literary history. It presents East and West: from the Bible, the Bhagavad-Gita, and the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu to the works of Karl Marx, Charles Baudelaire, and William Carlos Williams. Supplementing the sixty short essays originally published as Classics Revisited in 1969 are forty-one pieces from With Eye and Ear (1970) and The Elastic Retort (1973), both long out of print, as well as various previously uncollected or unpublished essays. Taken together, these hundred and one critiques stand, writes editor Bradford Morrow, "as a primer, or Baedeker, to a whole terrain of thought, to one man's study of imagination and its field of conjuries." The New Directions edition of Classics Revisited was chosen as a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selection, attesting to the wide appeal of Rexroth's learning and humanity.
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811210836ISBN-10:811210839UPC:9780811210836Book Category:Literary Criticism, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:European, Essays, Ancient and ClassicalBook Topic:Eastern (see also Russian & Soviet)Size:8.49 x 5.57 x 0.41 inchesWeight:0.4894Product ID:SCQA47G1J4
Rexroth, Kenneth: - Poet-essayist Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) was a high-school dropout, disillusioned ex-Communist, pacifist, anarchist, rock-climber, critic and translator, mentor, Catholic-Buddhist spiritualist and a prominent figure of San Francisco's Beat scene. He is regarded as a central figure of the San Francisco Renaissance and is among the first American poets to explore traditional Japanese forms such as the haiku.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

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