Work Without Hope Poetry by John Burt |
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| Author:
| Burt, John |
| Series title: | Johns Hopkins Poetry and Fiction Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-5371-5 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1990 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $20.95 |
Book Description:
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The poems in John Burt's newest collection aspire to record something of what Wordsworth called ''the still sad music of humanity,'' that ability to endure the limitations of the world--and the folly of one's own desires and ambitions in it--until one arrives, beyond disappointment or defeat, at a kind of lucid and reflective acceptance of ......
The poems in John Burt's newest collection aspire to record something of what Wordsworth called ''the still sad music of humanity,'' that ability to endure the limitations of the world--and the folly of one's own desires and ambitions in it--until one arrives, beyond disappointment or defeat, at a kind of lucid and reflective acceptance of ......