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Work without Hope
John Burt
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Description for Work without Hope
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The poems in John Burt's newest collection aspire to record something of what Wordsworth called "the still sad music of humanity," that ability to endure the limitations of the world--and the folly of one's own desires and ambitions in it--until one arrives, beyond disappointment or defeat, at a kind of lucid and reflective acceptance of experience with all of its shades. The poems are grouped thematically. The first part contains a series of nocturnes about death. The second includes testy confrontations with strangers. The third treats characters faced with moral challenges beyond their capacities. All of these concerns are ... Read more
The poems in John Burt's newest collection aspire to record something of what Wordsworth called "the still sad music of humanity," that ability to endure the limitations of the world--and the folly of one's own desires and ambitions in it--until one arrives, beyond disappointment or defeat, at a kind of lucid and reflective acceptance of experience with all of its shades. The poems are grouped thematically. The first part contains a series of nocturnes about death. The second includes testy confrontations with strangers. The third treats characters faced with moral challenges beyond their capacities. All of these concerns are ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Dustjacket
Yes
Dustjacket Condition
GOOD
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801853715
SKU
KEX0185921
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About John Burt
John Burt is associate professor of English and American Literature, Brandeis University. He is the author of 'The Way Down' and 'Robert Penn Warren and American Idealism'. His poems have appeared in such literary periodicals as 'Salmagundi', 'Yale Review', and 'Paris Review'.
Reviews for Work without Hope
"In the style of Edwin Arlington Robinson's 'Tilbury Town', Edgar Lee Master's 'Spoon River', and Robert Frost's 'North of Boston', John Burt is one of the best story-tellers among poets now writing in America."
Allen Grossman
Allen Grossman