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True Friendship looks closely at three outstanding poets of the past half-century-Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell-through the lens of their relation to their two predecessors in genius, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. The critical attention then finds itself reciprocated, with Eliot and Pound being in their turn contemplated anew through the lenses of their successors. Hill, Hecht, and Lowell are among the most generously alert and discriminating readers, as is borne out not only by their critical prose but (best of all) by their acts of new creation, those poems of theirs that are thanks to Eliot and Pound. "Opposition is true Friendship." So William Blake believed, or at any rate hoped. Hill, Hecht, and Lowell demonstrate many kinds of friendship with Eliot and Pound: adversarial, artistic, personal. In their creative assent and dissent, the imaginative literary allusions-like other, wider forms of influence-are shown to constitute the most magnanimous of welcomes and of tributes.

American poetry --- English poetry --- History and criticism. --- Hill, Geoffrey --- Hecht, Anthony, --- Lowell, Robert, --- Eliot, T. S. --- Pound, Ezra, --- Eliot, Thomas Stearns --- Khekt, Ėntoni, --- Pound, Ezra Loomis, --- Atheling, William, --- Bawnd, Izrā, --- Paount, Ezra, --- Pʻaundŭ, Ejŭra, --- Pavnd, Ezra, --- E. P. --- P., E. --- T. J. V., --- V., T. J., --- Pangde, --- Poet of Titchfield Street, --- Friends and associates. --- Influence. --- Ai-lüeh-tʻe, --- Īliyūt, T. S., --- Elliŏtʻŭ, --- Eliot, Thōmas S., --- Eliot, Th. S., --- Eliot, Thomas Stern, --- Elyoṭ, T. S., --- Ėliot, Tomas Stirns, --- אליוט ט.ס --- אליוט, ת. ס. --- Pound, Ezra --- Pound, Ezra Loomis --- Atheling, William --- Bawnd, Izrā --- Paount, Ezra --- Pʻaundŭ, Ejŭra --- Pavnd, Ezra --- T. J. V. --- V., T. J. --- Pangde --- Poet of Titchfield Street

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This sequel to the author's work, "The Force of Poetry", provides critical discussion of such poets as Donne, Crabbe, Hardy and Lowell. In further essays, Ricks addresses the works of Jane Austen, Victorian biographies, literary principles and theory, and contemporary literary criticism.

English literature --- American literature --- English Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- English-speaking countries --- Intellectual life.