The Time Book of Poetry: When You Get Old
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The book opens with Yeats, who was hailed by Eliot as "the greatest contemporary poet". This book opens the door to the classics of Western poetry for readers. The author has selected 21 important poets in the history of modern Western poetry: from Rimbaud, the originator of surrealist poetry, to Amy Lowell, the representative poet of Imagism; from Frost, the poet laureate who abides by meter, to Whitman, who created "free form"; from Eluard, a modernist poet who pursued freedom all his life, to Mrs. Browning, who wrote all innocence and love in sonnets... These 21 poetic stories are about love and loss, about ideals and freedom. The fate of the poet blends with the mood of the critic, reproducing the charm of these poems that have been washed by time.
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