By juxtaposing several translations of the same passage from Homer; an elegy from Ovid and lines from Herrick that read like an adaptation of Ovid; or a 15th-century poem about a rooster and a contemporary poem about white chickens, Louis Zukofsky has established a means for judging the values of poetic writing.
A wonderful education for the fledgling poet, this handbook, first published in 1948, is the best elucidation of Zukofsky's "objectivist" premises for recognizing value in specific instances of poetry.
- ISBN10 0393014460
- ISBN13 9780393014464
- Publish Date 1 April 1981
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 March 2004
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Hardcover
- Language English