The imaginative pressure which drives a poet's genius often exacts a high price, pushing some poets to extremities of suffering or the brink of insanity. Here, the imaginatively gifted Reed writes of poets and their work from the inside. The total commitment of the poet to his art is explored. The poets range from John Clare and Gerard Manley Hopkins to Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Rilke, Robert Lowell, and Theodore Roethke, among others.
- ISBN10 0720607442
- ISBN13 9780720607444
- Publish Date September 1989
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 April 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Peter Owen Publishers
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English