- Title: Lives of the Poets
- Author: Michael Schmidt
- Year Published: 1998 (A Phoenix Paperback)
- Year Purchased: 2004/2005
- Source: Barnes & Noble clearance rack
- About: Michael Schmidt takes approximately 1000 pages to cover more than 250 poets, briskly but rigorously dissecting their lives, influences, historical circumstances, and professional interconnections. Mapping out seven centuries of poetic genealogy is a gargantuan task, but Lives of the Poets is a surprisingly quick read, and as riveting as most of its subjects’ creations.
- Motivation: The title + poets + biographies=bliss. Surprised?
- Times Read: Cover-to-cover-1/Excerpts-Multiple
- Random Excerpt/Page 11: “Poems swim free of their age, but it’s hard to think of a single poem that swims entirely free of its medium, not just language but language used in the particular ways that are poetry. Even the most pathenogenetic-seeming poem has a pedigree. The poet may not know precisely a line’s or a stanza’s parents; indeed, may not be interested in finding out. Yet as readers of poetry we can come to know more about a poem than the poet does and know it more fully.”
- Happiness Scale: 8
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I didn’t know I had a pedigree.
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An unwilling one, it seems.
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I’ve read this one, or most of it. Seems there was an older printing? I think I have the old one … somewhere …
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It was originally published in 1998. There is no older edition. Perhaps you are thinking of another book…?
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