A Celebration of Poets

this paperback edition originated as lectures delivered at The Johns Hopkins Poetry Festivals held in 1958 and 1961. Marianne Moore, Mark Van Doren, Yvor Winters, and R.P.Blackmur discuss their art in general and the works of three other poets in particular: Edwin Muir, Edith Sitwell, and Thomas Hardy. Johns Holmes, May Sarton, Richard Eberhart, Richard Wilbur, and Randall Jarrell are concerned to identify the nature of poetry, the roles of the poet and critic, and the function that poetry serves in life and society.