{"product_id":"toward-the-open-field-poets-on-the-art-of-poetry-18001950-wesleyan-poetry-series","title":"Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe historical writings that helped shape our current understandings of poetry.  Toward the Open Field brings together many of the great prose piecesessays  letters  declarations  defenses  manifestos  and apologiaby the most influential European and American poets from the Romantics to the Symbolists  Surrealists  and Moderns. Hitherto uncollected and all in English  the work in this anthology follows the changing notions of what a poem is  what a poet is  and why we read a poem  tracing the development of stylistic and ideological strategies that have spawned our current  conflicting understandings of verse.  The book begins with Wordsworths 1802 \"Preface\" to the Lyrical Ballads and proceeds through 150 years of English language tradition  including the European poetries which greatly influenced it. These prose works allow the reader to share one of the great extended conversations by poets about poetry during a dynamic period of literary experimentation.  Includes work by Charles Baudelaire  Andr Breton  Aim Csaire  Samuel Taylor Coleridge  Emily Dickinson  T.S. Eliot  Ralph Waldo Emerson  Gerard Manley Hopkins  Langston Hughes  John Keats  Federico Garcia Lorca  Mina Loy  Stphane Mallarm  Marianne Moore  Charles Olson  Ezra Pound  Arthur Rimbaud  Percy Bysshe Shelley  Gertrude Stein  Wallace Stevens  Paul Valry  Walt Whitman  William Carlos Williams  William Wordsworth and Louis Zukofsky.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946988073013,"sku":"ByrdShop_0819566071","price":28.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780819566072.jpg?v=1769976221","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/toward-the-open-field-poets-on-the-art-of-poetry-18001950-wesleyan-poetry-series","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}