The Three Acts of Criticism
Helen Vendler, 26 May 1994
The Oxford Companion to 20th-Century Poetry in English
edited by Ian Hamilton.
Oxford, 602 pp., £25, February 1994,0 19 866147 9 Show More
edited by Ian Hamilton.
Oxford, 602 pp., £25, February 1994,
“... Tombs’ offer the paragraph as a verse unit in a way that no one had quite done before, not even Whitman ... What Sandburg often catches is the tacky bravura and breezy sentimentality of his Midwest subjects, a sense of pulsating energy still unsure of itself and sometimes lapsing into the maudlin, the vicious or the grotesque. Sandburg of course has ... ”