Old Poets is an indispensable jewel. Washington PostAn astonishing array of encounters...Halls observations are shrewd and generous. Boston Globe Intimate portraits of great poets in old age, giving new insight into their work and their lives, and context to the often flawless art created by flawed human beings. The best of themselves endure, and the old poets existence and endurance gives readers courage to pursue their own vision. Donald Hall (Essays After Eighty and A Carnival of Losses Notes Nearing Ninety) knew a great deal about work, about poetry, and about age. Each of those things come together in this unique collection. We hear about Robert Frost as Hall knew him vain and cruel, a man possessed by guilt. But, as Hall writes, The poet who survives is the poet to celebrate the human being who confronts darkness and defeats it is the one to admire. For all his vanity, Robert Frost is admirable He looked into his desert places, confronted his desire to enter the oblivion of the snowy woods, and drove on.Halls essays are once both intimate portraits and learned treatises. He takes us on a pub crawl through the Welsh countryside with the wordmad Dylan Thomas to the Faber & Faber office of T. S. Eliot, who had discovered more happiness in age than in youth to a reading where Robert Frosts public persona hid the truth to Brooklyn for lunch with the enigmatic Marianne Moore and to Italy and for a visit with the notorious Ezra Pound. By the time Hall met them, each poet...

Binding: Hardback;304 pages; Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher Inc; Classification: DSC; Weight: 704 g; Dimensions: 164 x 237 x 31

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