robinbsmith's review against another edition
5.0
Stunningly brilliant, both as a work of art and as a teaching tool.
Part exemplary guide, part philosophical treatise, pure powerful poetry: he fully illustrates the assertive force that writing is capable of.
This is a book I will never part with and will read again and again.
The whole series is stellar, truly out-of-this-world good.
Can I praise it more??
Part exemplary guide, part philosophical treatise, pure powerful poetry: he fully illustrates the assertive force that writing is capable of.
This is a book I will never part with and will read again and again.
The whole series is stellar, truly out-of-this-world good.
Can I praise it more??
sailert's review against another edition
4.0
This is one crazy poetics/criticism book.
Young lost me a few times, but it was still a lot of fun to read. I underlined quite a bit. I loved the discussion on Hamlet. If you're really, really into poetry, I'd pick this up. It's not very long, but it's kind of all over the place. It's dense, it's certainly passionate and reckless (for lack of a better word).
Young lost me a few times, but it was still a lot of fun to read. I underlined quite a bit. I loved the discussion on Hamlet. If you're really, really into poetry, I'd pick this up. It's not very long, but it's kind of all over the place. It's dense, it's certainly passionate and reckless (for lack of a better word).
sshabein's review against another edition
4.0
Definitely not light reading, so this took me a little while to read, as I mainly read before bed and was sometimes too tired to do more than a few pages (this is not the book's fault, of course). Lots of good stuff to consider, write down. Made me want to read more of his poetry.
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