Another Look

Résumé du livre

Horace Gregory's poems ... are among the finest of our time. What gives them a distinctive quality for me is the beautiful sense of the past I find in them, that is Gregory's sense of history. His poems are not images spun from himself in single thought; in them the poet lends his voice to voices long silent. He can repeople a neighborhood, or show us the Medusa-face in Gramercy Park; and he can also walk with Emerson or listen to Goethe. In him the poetic imagination lives harmoniously with the imagination of history. This gives singular force and largeness to Gregory's work. --Leon Edel.