A Correspondence of Americans (Classic Reprint) Hardcover -

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Excerpt from A Correspondence of Americans Of the hundreds and hundreds of competently written books of poems published every year, there is rarely one that distinguishes itself from the common idiom. It is always an event of importance to find a poet whose speech is his own. The poet who has evolved his own particular version of the language is ultimately the only interesting poet, the one whose name we remember. I am not talk ing about style, which is usually no more than a polite variation of the norm, but of invention itself. For poetry is not simply a way of saying something: it is a way of seeing. The poet is the one who confers significance upon his language, by seeing through it and by using it new. The true poet is no respecter of language; quite the contrary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.