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The Virtues of Poetry by James Longenbach is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Virtues of Poetry about?
**An illuminating look at the many forms of poetry's essential excellence by James Longenbach, a writer with "an ear as subtle and assured as any American poet now writing" (John Koethe)**"This book proposes some of the virtues to which the next poem might aspire: boldness, change, compression, dilation, doubt, excess, inevitability, intimacy, otherness, particularity, restraint, shyness, surprise, and worldliness. The word ‘virtue' came to English from Latin, via Old French, and while it has acquired a moral valence, the word in its earliest uses gestured toward a magical or transcendental power, a power that might be embodied by any particular substance or act. With vices I am not concerned. Unlike the short-term history of taste, which is fueled by reprimand or correction, the history of art moves from achievement to achievement. Contemporary embodiments of poetry's virtues abound, and only our devotion to a long history of excellence allows us to recognize them." –from James Longenbach's preface __The Virtues of Poetry__ is a resplendent and ultimately moving work of twelve interconnected essays, each of which describes the way in which a particular excellence is enacted in poe
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- James Longenbach
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781555970673
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, History
- Rating
- 3.93 / 5 (68 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14