Willard spiegelman biography books

WILLARD SPIEGELMAN was for many years the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and the longtime editor of the Southwest Review.

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Books by Willard Spiegelman

Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary Happiness
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3.39 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions

The Lives and Works of the English Romantic Poets
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3.85 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions

Senior Moments: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
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3.78 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions

How to Read and Understand Poetry
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3.67 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions

Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt
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4.29 avg rating — 28 ratings — 2 editions

Love, Amy: The Selected Letters
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4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions

How Poets See the World: The Art of Description in Contemporary Poetry
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4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions

Imaginative Transcripts: Selected Liter

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An evocative portrait of the beloved and acclaimed poet, whose late-in-life success took the literary world by storm. With the publication of her first book of poems at the age of sixty-three, Amy Clampitt rose meteorically to fame, launching herself from obscurity to the upper ranks of American poetry all but overnight, and living a whirlwind eleven years, until her death in 1994. Years later, as renowned poetry scholar Willard Spiegelman wades into her papers and poems, he discovers a woman of dazzling intellect, staunch progressive politics, and an inexhaustible sense of wonder for the world and the words we've invented to describe it. Giving equal weight to the life and the poetry, Spiegelman untangles Clampitt's famously allusive lines to reveal the experiences they emerged from, pulling the curtain back on her nearly four decades of artistic anonymity, and in doing so assembling a rich period piece of Manhattan during the days in which Clampitt worked for Oxford U

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Knopf | Illinois

Review by David Starkey

Some striking similarities emerge between the subjects of Willard Spiegelman’s Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt and Dana Greene’s Jane Kenyon: The Making of a Poet. Both Clampitt and Kenyon were white women from the Midwest (Clampitt from Iowa, Kenyon from Michigan) who moved to the East Coast (New York City and New Hampshire) for their adult lives. Clampitt died in September of 1994, while Kenyon passed away the following April. Clampitt published her breakout collection, Kingfisher, in 1983, while Kenyon’s second, but first widely praised volume, The Boat of Quiet Hours, was published in 1986. For about a decade, both were celebrated as genuine American originals, with special acclaim given to their keen insight into the natural world. Each new magazine appearance and book publication was an occasion for gratitude among certain readers of poetry (myself included).

In other ways, though, their poetry