Twentieth Century Pleasures

U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass considers some of the twentiethcentury poets who bring him pleasure: Robert Lowll, JamesWright, Tomas Transtromer, Joseph Brodsky, Yvor Winters, Robert Creeley, James McMichael, Czeslaw Milosz, and others, in this, his first collection of essays. Originally published in1984, Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry won theNational Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. A new collection of Robert Hass`s essays will be published by Ecco in 1998. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.