Background
Perkins, David was born on October 25, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Dwight Goss and Esther M. (Williams) Perkins.
(Demonstrating how English Romantic writing took up issues...)
Demonstrating how English Romantic writing took up issues of what we now call animal rights, this study joins the growing number of studies that seek precedents or affinities in English Romanticism for ecological concerns. An unprecedented amount of writing advocated kindness to animals in England during the second half of the eighteenth century. This theme was carried through many genres, from sermons to encyclopedias, scientific works to literature for children, and to the poetry of Cowper, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Clare and others.
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When preparing English Romantic Writers, one of the principal considerations was the relevance of the English Romantic writers to our own generation. This book offers a very generous selection from authors who have traditionally held a large place in our consciousness of English Romanticism, but it also includes other figures, especially women, who have been less emphasized in the past. The intellectual discourses of the age concerning governance, politics, and the impact of the French Revolution, gender and the status of women, the nature of nature and of human psychology, and the theory of literature and art are represented in the prose and poetry of writers like Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Shelleys, and Keats. There is also an usually large selection of ancillary materials -- letters, journals, reviews, and reminiscences of the writers.
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"Profoundly searching, yet written with grace and lucidity. A distinguished historian and critic illuminates and answers one of the major problems of literary study in a work that will become and remain a classic."-W. Jackson Bate. "Perkins writes clearly and concisely. Like René Wellek and M. H. Abrams, he has an admirable gift for making clear the underlying assumptions of many different writers."-Comparative Literature.
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There have been many books on early modernist poetry, not so many on its various sequels, and still fewer on the currents and cross-currents of poetry since World War II. Until now there has been no single comprehensive history of British and American poetry throughout the half century from the mid-1920s to the recent past. This David Perkins is uniquely equipped to provide; only a critic as well informed as he in the whole range of twentieth-century poetry could offer a lucid, coherent, and structured account of so diverse a body of work. Perkins devotes major discussions to the later careers of the first Modernist poets, such as Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams, and to their immediate followers in the United States, E. E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, and Hart Crane; to W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and the period style of the 1930s; to the emergence of the New Criticism and of a poetry reflecting its tenets in William Empson, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, John Berryman, and Robert Lowell, and to the reaction against this style; to postwar Great Britain from Philip Larkin and the "Movement" in the 1950s to Ted Hughes, Charles Tomlinson, and Geoffrey Hill; to the theory and style of "open form" in Charles Olson and Robert Duncan; to Allen Ginsberg and the Beat poetry of the 1960s; to the poetry of women's experience in Sylvia Plath and Adrienne Rich; to the work of Black poets from Robert Hayden and Gwendolyn Brooks to Amiri Baraka; and to Elizabeth Bishop, W. S. Merwin, A. R. Ammons, John Ashbery, and James Merrill. Perkins discusses some 160 poets, mentioning many others more briefly, and does not hesitate to explain, to criticize, to admire, to render judgments. He clarifies the complex interrelations of individuals, groups, and movements and the contexts in which the poets worked: not only the predecessors and contemporaries they responded to but the journals that published them, the expectations of the audience, changing premises about poetry, the writings of critics, developments in other arts, and the momentous events of political and social history. Readers seeking guidance through the maze of postwar poetry will find the second half of the book especially illuminating.
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Perkins, David was born on October 25, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Dwight Goss and Esther M. (Williams) Perkins.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1951; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1952; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1955.
Member faculty, Harvard University, since 1957; Professor of English, Harvard University, 1964-1994; department chairman English, Harvard University, 1976-1981; department chairman literature, Harvard University, 1987-1989; professor emeritus, Harvard University, since 1994. Visiting professor Goettingen U., 1968-1969.
( The first comprehensive history of modern poetry in En...)
(The first comprehensive history of modern poetry in Engli...)
(Demonstrating how English Romantic writing took up issues...)
( This book presents not just the Romantic Wordsworth, b...)
( There have been many books on early modernist poetry, ...)
(When preparing English Romantic Writers, one of the princ...)
( "Profoundly searching, yet written with grace and lucid...)
("Profoundly searching, yet written with grace and lucidit...)
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Served with Army of the United States, 1955-1957. Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, Cambridge Science Club.