Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Night Talk and Other Poems

4/5 ( ratings)

The first thing I recognize as the beginning of a poem, writes Richard Pevear, is a distinct rhythm, not only of stress but of movement. Once I hear it, I can find words for it. But the essential thing, finally, is simultaneity--the completion of a shape, a thought, an emotion, a figure, all at the same time. The Trojan War, the figures of Greek tragedy, certain elements of the Gospels, the stories of Malory, are parts of my personal language.

Originally published in 1978.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Language: English

Pages: 74

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Release: February 21, 1978

ISBN: 069101342X

ISBN 13: 9780691013428

Night Talk and Other Poems

4/5 ( ratings)

The first thing I recognize as the beginning of a poem, writes Richard Pevear, is a distinct rhythm, not only of stress but of movement. Once I hear it, I can find words for it. But the essential thing, finally, is simultaneity--the completion of a shape, a thought, an emotion, a figure, all at the same time. The Trojan War, the figures of Greek tragedy, certain elements of the Gospels, the stories of Malory, are parts of my personal language.

Originally published in 1978.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Language: English

Pages: 74

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Release: February 21, 1978

ISBN: 069101342X

ISBN 13: 9780691013428

More books from Richard Pevear

The Three Musketeers

The Brothers Karamazov

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Notes from Underground

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Demons

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

4.3/5 ( ratings)

War's Unwomanly Face

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Selected Stories

4.2/5 ( ratings)

What Is Art?

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Mother Maria Skobtsova: Essential Writings

4.4/5 ( ratings)

The Eternal Husband and Other Stories

3.9/5 ( ratings)

A Month in the Country

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Pup Grew Up!

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Translating Music

Our King Has Horns!

3.3/5 ( ratings)

The Aesthetic Face of Being: Art in the Theology of Pavel Florensky

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Mister Cat-and-a-Half

The Eternal Husband and Other Stories

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Notes from the Underground : With Original Annotation

Collection of the best works of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1)

Rate this book!

Write a review?