A Word in Your Ear
Poems
MONROE K. SPEARS(Author)
Louisiana State University Press
Published on 1. December 2002
Book
Hardback
64 pages
978-0-8071-2722-3 (ISBN)
Description
A Word in Your Ear offers roughly forty poems, organized in two titled sections: "The Levitator" and "Autumn Convocation." Spears reflects on the passage of time-specifically, the maturation from boyhood to old age- and its effect on his view of himself and the world. This subject is treated with some degree of levity, humor, and ease, rather than with the weight and seriousness it implies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Baton Rouge
United States
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8071-2722-3 (9780807127223)
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Person
Monroe Spears, until his recent death at the age of 81, was Moody Professor of English Emeritus at Rice University. Among the several other positions he held in his academic career, he was from 1952 to 1964 concurrently professor of English at the University of the South and editor of the Sewanee Review. He was the author of several works of criticism, including The Poetry of W. H. Auden: The Disenchanted Island (Oxford University Press, 1963); Dionysus and the City: Modernism in Twentieth-Century Poetry (Oxford University Press, 1971); and American Ambitions: Selected Essays (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987).