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SELECTED POEMS by John Peale Bishop

SELECTED POEMS

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Pub Date: Feb. 1st, 1941
Publisher: Scribner

Not poetry of easy emotions, or of romantic sentiment, but rather a ""private poetry"" whose somewhat Italianate derivations give it a quality of aloofness. There are abstractions, indirections, there is transference from painting to words, there are some lovely lines, sections. But on the whole it seems intellectualized beyond a general appeal.