Volume 22, Number 15 · October 2, 1975
Gifts of the Gab
By Donald Davie
Tales Told of the Fathers
by John Hollander
Atheneum, 100 pp., $7.95
Vision and Resonance: Two Senses of Poetic Form
by John Hollander
Oxford University Press, 314 pp., $12.50
Those who are alarmed by New York, as I am, must be alarmed also by John Hollander's poems, which I register as New York poetry through and through. In the past Hollander has been explicit and defiant about this, as in his witty and accomplished imitation of Juvenal's third satire, where New York is substituted for Juvenal's Rome; or in the controlled octosyllabic garrulity of 'Upon Apthorp House' (from Movie-Going, 1962), where he thankfully greets the Hudson recovered after years in the New England wilderness:
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