Reblogged from Tears in the Fence:

This massive book (580 pages) is a collection of 'essays on the poet's novel', which takes a look at contemporaneous and (mostly 20th Century) historical prose works written by poets. Most are written by poets, so we have an anthology of poet's critical prose about other poets' fiction.

I can't pretend I know all of the critics or the authors and texts under discussion; even the many names I do know, I often haven't read the works being considered.

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