Author : Paul Goodman
Publisher : New York, Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis The Lordly Hudson by : Paul Goodman
Download or read book The Lordly Hudson written by Paul Goodman and published by New York, Macmillan. This book was released on 1962 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first collection of Paul Goodman's poems, though his verse has been appearing regularly in magazines for thirty years — during which time he was winning a reputation as a novelist and as an author and teacher in community planning, social psychology, anarchist politics, and literary criticism. But Mr. Goodman's poetry is the simplest, the most direct expression of what he has been trying to say in these apparently diverse fields. He has explained that he really has only one subject, man in his man-made environment. He wants to keep intact, for himself and for his readers, the relation between the spirited animals that we are and the environment, institutions, and culture that we have created but that now seem to be alien and menacing to life. He refuses to allow the modern world to become a set of external conditions to which we must resignedly conform; he keeps trying to discover the creative animal man still alive in those conditions. His poems are the cries of such discoveries. In this collection, Paul Goodman has tried to give a balanced expression of the whole range of his work. There are political poems and love poems, historical narratives and pictures of nature, ballads of the city and prayers to God."--Inside flap.