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" Old Poets is an indispensable jewel." — Washington Post "An astonishing array of encounters...Hall's 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." Hall's essays are once both intimate portraits and learned treatises. He takes us on a pub crawl through the Welsh countryside with the word-mad Dyla

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Author

Donald Hall, Wesley McNair

Publisher

David R. Godine, Publisher

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781567926958

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Literary Criticism

Rating

4.6 / 5 (57 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14