On Poetry, Culture, and Democracy
'Robert Pinsky belongs to that rarest category of talents, a poet-critic.' Robert Lowell
For Robert Pinsky, poetry's individual, human scale as a fundamentally vocal medium with poems brought to life by one person at a time gives poetry a unique importance in American and democratic culture and society. This book brings together two compelling works of criticism by the former poet laureate The Situation of Poetry and Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry, in which he makes a passionate and eloquent case for the vital role of poetry in a democracy.
'Robert Pinsky belongs to that rarest category of talents, a poet-critic.' Robert Lowell
For Robert Pinsky, poetry's individual, human scale as a fundamentally vocal medium with poems brought to life by one person at a time gives poetry a unique importance in American and democratic culture and society. This book brings together two compelling works of criticism by the former poet laureate The Situation of Poetry and Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry, in which he makes a passionate and eloquent case for the vital role of poetry in a democracy.
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'Robert Pinsky belongs to that rarest category of talents, a poet-critic.' Robert Lowell
For Robert Pinsky, poetry's individual, human scale as a fundamentally vocal medium with poems brought to life by one person at a time gives poetry a unique importance in American and democratic culture and society. This book brings together two compelling works of criticism by the former poet laureate The Situation of Poetry and Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry, in which he makes a passionate and eloquent case for the vital role of poetry in a democracy.
