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Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry

Robert Hass

U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass considers some of the twentiethcentury poets who bring him pleasure: Robert Lowll, JamesWright, Tomas Transtromer, Joseph Brodsky, Yvor Winters,Robert Creeley, James McMichael, Czeslaw Milosz, and others,in this, his first collection of essays. Originally published in1984, Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry won theNational Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. A new collection of Robert Hass's essays will be published by Ecco in 1998.

Arts & CriticismArts & Criticism · medium confidenceArts & Criticism81 signalsLlm Classifier: Arts & Criticism -> Arts & CriticismOpen Library: Literature, modern, history and criticism, 20th century -> Arts & CriticismOpen Library: History and criticism -> HistoryLiterature & WritersArt, Music & Performance

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismMajor1984WinnerSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

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    • Robert Lowll38%
    • James Wright38%

  2. 02 Central places

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  3. 03 Suggested argument

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  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 62%.