Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Wyatt
https://www.goodreads.com/wruckle
Stoner
by
“Jeffers writes out of enraged, disappointed romanticism: civilized in his expectations, he cannot forgive civilization in that it wasn’t worth his faith.”
― Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry – Rigorous Literary Criticism on Poetics and Writing from a Nobel Prize Winner
― Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry – Rigorous Literary Criticism on Poetics and Writing from a Nobel Prize Winner
“the poem, no matter how charged its content, will not survive on content but through voice.”
― Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry – Rigorous Literary Criticism on Poetics and Writing from a Nobel Prize Winner
― Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry – Rigorous Literary Criticism on Poetics and Writing from a Nobel Prize Winner
“The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.”
― Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry – Rigorous Literary Criticism on Poetics and Writing from a Nobel Prize Winner
― Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry – Rigorous Literary Criticism on Poetics and Writing from a Nobel Prize Winner
“Mrs Crane lies with her hair on the pillow reading a French memoir. As she reads, she sweeps her hand with an abandoned and despairing gesture over her forehead, and sighs, "Is this all?" comparing herself with some French duchess.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“Poetic intelligence lacks, I think, such focused investment in conclusion, being naturally wary of its own assumptions. It derives its energy from a willingness to discard conclusion in the face of evidence, its willingness, in fact, to discard anything.”
― Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry – Rigorous Literary Criticism on Poetics and Writing from a Nobel Prize Winner
― Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry – Rigorous Literary Criticism on Poetics and Writing from a Nobel Prize Winner
Wyatt’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Wyatt’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
103 books
|
110 friends
245 books
|
48 friends
2,546 books
|
1,602 friends
3,141 books
|
416 friends
1,111 books
|
530 friends
7,302 books
|
1,366 friends
3,233 books
|
4,978 friends
1,042 books
|
247 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Wyatt
Lists liked by Wyatt