Poems Bewitched and Haunted, Hardcover/John Hollander
Descriere
A delightfully ghoulish array of specters and sorceresses, witches and ghosts, hags and apparitions haunt these pages-a literary parade of phantoms and shades to add to the revelry of All Hallow's Eve. From Homer to Horace, Pope to Poe, Randall Jarrell to James Merrill, Poems Bewitched and Haunted draws on three thousand years of poetic forays into the supernatural. Ovid conjures the witch Medea, Virgil channels Aeneas's wife from the afterlife, Baudelaire lays bare the wiles of the incubus, and Emily Dickinson records two souls conversing in a crypt, in poems that call out to be read aloud, whether around the campfire or the Ouija board. From ballads and odes, to spells and chants, to dialogues and incantations, here is a veritable witches' brew of poems from the spirit world.
Despre autor
John Hollander a fost un poet și critic literar american. La momentul morții, era profesor emerit Sterling de limba engleză la Universitatea Yale, predând anterior la Connecticut College, Hunter College și CUNY Graduate Center. A fost un Fellow MacArthur în 1990 și poet laureat al Connecticut între 2007–2009.
