Ships Going into the Blue Essays and Notes on Poetry

"...Simpson has no time for abstractions, and very little for argument; his many dismissive asides aimed at Theory, and at Creative Writing Workshops, have the fell of a car idling --smoke emerges, there's a growling sound, but nothing is moving, and no new ground is covered. Simpson's essays on individual poets are refreshingly candid, and maddeningly impercipient....this book is for people who love Simpson's poetry so much that they want to own every scrap of his prose, or else for future sociologists of literature, who want to know what a fairly successful twentieth-century poet of average intelligence thought of his contemporaries and what his contemporaries thought of him."Simpson, Louis is the author of 'Ships Going into the Blue Essays and Notes on Poetry' with ISBN 9780472065592 and ISBN 0472065599.