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Dec. 18th, 2008
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Dec. 18th, 2008 06:55 amBlurbs I've found memorable:
for Elizabeth Bishop's Complete Poems, 1927-1979:
"Of all the splendid and curious works belonging to my time, these are the poems that I love best and tire of least. And there will be no others."--James Merrill (best)
for The Voice That Is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century [1970]:
"Not only the best on its period, I think, but is even perhaps safe from the competition of rivals."--Robert Lowell (worst)
for A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:
"A truly extraordinary novel."--Ewan Mcgregor (Mcgreg'riest)
There's a godawful one by Norman Mailer that's eluding me, for some counterculturish book, maybe by Burroughs or Pynchon.
for Elizabeth Bishop's Complete Poems, 1927-1979:
"Of all the splendid and curious works belonging to my time, these are the poems that I love best and tire of least. And there will be no others."--James Merrill (best)
for The Voice That Is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century [1970]:
"Not only the best on its period, I think, but is even perhaps safe from the competition of rivals."--Robert Lowell (worst)
for A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:
"A truly extraordinary novel."--Ewan Mcgregor (Mcgreg'riest)
There's a godawful one by Norman Mailer that's eluding me, for some counterculturish book, maybe by Burroughs or Pynchon.