Creative Glut: Selected Essays of Karl Shapiro

by Karl Shapiro

Trenchant prose writings on poetry, poets, and cultural matters by one of the most important essayists of his generation. Edited with an Introduction by Robert Phillips. A lively and slashing critic...reading him one feels windows opening, clouds passing, sunlight, and a fresh breeze entering the room. ―Joseph Epstein

Genres: Essays

Hardcover

First published March 1, 2004

About the author

Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.

Reviews

[Doug · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent! He won me over in the first chapter with the scathing critique of T. S. Eliot and his Le Bourgeois gentilhomme buddies. Looking forward to each chapter as I find time.