Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-262) and index.
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Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Image and idea in the poetry of Robert Hayden / Constance J. Post -- Angle of ascent : the poetry of Robert Hayden / Lewis Turco -- "Middle passage" : Robert Hayden's anti-epic / Fred M. Fetrow -- After modernism, after hibernation : Michael Harper, Robert Hayden, and Jay Wright / Robert B. Stepto -- Covenant of timelessness and time : symbolism and history in Robert Hayden's Angle of ascent / Wilburn Williams, Jr -- Robert Hayden's use of history / Charles T. Davis -- Robert Hayden's meditation on art : the final sequence of Words in the mourning time / Fritz Oehlschlaeger -- Changing permanences : historical and literary revisionism in Robert Hayden's "Middle passage" / Vera M. Kutzinski -- A ballad of rememberance (1962) / Pontheolla T. Williams -- Answering The waste land : Robert Hayden and the rise of the African-American poetic sequence / Brian Conniff -- Robert Hayden's Detroit blues elegies / Frank Rashid -- Something patterned, wild, and free : Robert Hayden's Angles of descent and the democratic unconscious / Edward M. Pavlic -- Chronology.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The essays collected here illuminate the work of an inspired thinker and rigorous craftsman whose achievement places him among the most important American poets of the twentieth century.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Hayden, Robert,1913-1980-- Criticism and interpretation.
Hayden, Robert Earl-- Criticism and interpretation.