William Doreski
Keene State College, English, Faculty Member
- I am Professor Emeritus of English at Keene State College in New Hampshire. I have published four critical studies, several collections of poetry, and many essays and book reviews.edit
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In a 1961 letter to his cousin Harriet Winslow, Robert Lowell, reflecting on the Cold War crises of the period, particularly the erection of the Berlin Wall, wroteThe world's really strange isn't it? I mean the world of the news... more
In a 1961 letter to his cousin Harriet Winslow, Robert Lowell, reflecting on the Cold War crises of the period, particularly the erection of the Berlin Wall, wroteThe world's really strange isn't it? I mean the world of the news and the nations and the bomb testings. I feel it this fall and wonder, if…
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... William E. Doreski o The Sudden Bridegroom ... During the 1940s perhaps only Delmore Schwartz (Genesis, 1943), Muriel Rukeyser (Beast in View, 1944), Elizabeth Bishop (North and South, 1946), and Theodore Roethke (The Lost Son, 1948)... more
... William E. Doreski o The Sudden Bridegroom ... During the 1940s perhaps only Delmore Schwartz (Genesis, 1943), Muriel Rukeyser (Beast in View, 1944), Elizabeth Bishop (North and South, 1946), and Theodore Roethke (The Lost Son, 1948) challenged the characteristic ...
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Abstract: This essay examines several John Ashbery poems, including two very recent ones, and a series of photographs by Robert Frank. It argues that in these different media contingency has moved from aleatory effect to structural or... more
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This essay examines several John Ashbery poems, including two very recent ones, and a series of photographs by Robert Frank. It argues that in these different media contingency has moved from aleatory effect to structural or primary form and function, and that this represents an extension of the means of photography into other arts as well as an example of photography moving even further from pictorial or fine-arts models to more completely fulfill its own aesthetic imperative.
This essay examines several John Ashbery poems, including two very recent ones, and a series of photographs by Robert Frank. It argues that in these different media contingency has moved from aleatory effect to structural or primary form and function, and that this represents an extension of the means of photography into other arts as well as an example of photography moving even further from pictorial or fine-arts models to more completely fulfill its own aesthetic imperative.
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Copyright 1995 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper All rights reserved 01 00 99 98 97 C 6 5432 01 00 99 98 97 F 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress... more
Copyright 1995 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper All rights reserved 01 00 99 98 97 C 6 5432 01 00 99 98 97 F 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Doreski, William The modern ...
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In many of Robert Frost's best poems the spirit of place that is New England is a diminishing thing, represented by a landscape in which the capacity for human renewal has apparently faded, leaving mad farm wives, eccentric... more
In many of Robert Frost's best poems the spirit of place that is New England is a diminishing thing, represented by a landscape in which the capacity for human renewal has apparently faded, leaving mad farm wives, eccentric telescopists, and most poignantly the ruins of hill ...
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If I knew my best poem, I think I would be too elated to reveal the secret; like some powerful chemical formula, this knowledge should be guarded and sipped by stealth. Anyway, I have no idea. Each poem was meant to be alive and new, and... more
If I knew my best poem, I think I would be too elated to reveal the secret; like some powerful chemical formula, this knowledge should be guarded and sipped by stealth. Anyway, I have no idea. Each poem was meant to be alive and new, and many were once ambitious. Ichose For the ...
Much contemporary poetry attempts to charge a landscape with the imaginative self through an allegorical and mytho-logical vision. While poetryof the past tends to place the self in a landscape where it perceives and reacts, our... more
Much contemporary poetry attempts to charge a landscape with the imaginative self through an allegorical and mytho-logical vision. While poetryof the past tends to place the self in a landscape where it perceives and reacts, our contempor-aries frankly reverse the process and ...
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Though this passage illustrates Lowell's tendency to read the world in autobiographical terms, it also displays his sensitivity to the role of lan-guage in crisis situations. The rhetorical, public, and communal problem of... more
Though this passage illustrates Lowell's tendency to read the world in autobiographical terms, it also displays his sensitivity to the role of lan-guage in crisis situations. The rhetorical, public, and communal problem of voicing the required question may be the key ...
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A review of some recent work on Henry David Thoreau.
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A review of Adrienne Rich's Collected Poems