Affirming Limits: Essays on Mortality, Choice, and Poetic Form - Softcover

Pack, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870236539 ISBN 13: 9780870236532

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988

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Book by Pack, Robert

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About the Author:

ROBERT PACK has published fifteen volumes of his own poetry and is Middlebury College Professor Emeritus of Literature and Creative Writing. Currently, he is teaching in the Honors College of the University of Montana in Missoula. He and Jay Parini have edited eight poetry anthologies for UPNE, the most recent of which is Contemporary Poetry of New England (2002).

From Library Journal:

Despite the subtitle, the central thrust of these separately published essays is the interrelationship of sorrow and happiness. Pack (director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference) argues that the ``vision of possible happiness, happiness that comes from the acceptance of limits, enables the artist to place evil and suffering in their proper perspective.'' He reanalyzes familiar classic works of poetry, Macbeth , Keats's letters, Wordsworth's The Prelude , and key texts of Pope, Hardy, Hopkins, Yeats, Frost, W.C. Williams, and Stevens. (Saul Bellow and Howard Nemerov are the only contemporary writers mentioned.) Pack's essays illustrate that ``the power to create grace from disorder or personal sorrow derives from the cultivation of a discipline, the mastery of a craft.'' Frank Allen, Associate Dean, Continuing Education, Allentown Coll., Center Valley, Pa.
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About this edition

• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0870236539
• ISBN 13: 9780870236532
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272