Collected Poems 1940-1978

by Karl Shapiro

Collected Poems, 1940-1978

Genres: Poetry

341 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.

Reviews

[Hans Ostrom · Rating 5 out of 5]

An iconoclastic, contrarian view of the world and the U.S., exacting detail and phrasing, and especially early on, a talent for designing and constructing poems of splendid architecture. Intelligence, irony, and observation characterize his poetry, and although he was extremely well read--and a longtime editor of Poetry magazine (Chicago), he doesn't show off his learning just to impress or be difficult--one reason why he quarreled--in print--with Eliot and Pound. Probably W.H. Auden influenced his poetry the most. Much pleasure to be had in this volume.