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Shapiro, Alan (1952–) Reference library
Richard Stull
The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry (2 ed.)
...Courtesy ( 1983 ) explore the need to be a part of the general human experience. In the best of these poems, of which ‘Simon, the Barber’ is representative, the speaker yearns for acceptance by old friends and family members. In later poems Shapiro speaks no longer as an outsider but as a willing participant in his extended family of men and women. His love poems celebrate the mundane moments of life. A pregnant wife regards herself in the mirror; a man joins a woman for a swim: casual moments, imbued with stature in Shapiro’s poems. Shapiro’s other books...
Merrill, James (1926–95) Reference library
Mark Ford
The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry (2 ed.)
.... His poems are sheathed in manners in a way unusual in American poetry (Proust and * Auden are without doubt the two dominant influences on his overall poetics). Merrill called manners ‘an artifice in the very bloodstream’; his own nature poems are instinct with an unfailing courtesy, occasionally patrician, occasionally camp, and this social dimension is reflected also in the multiple frames and stylistic devices through which he habitually angles his material. His work is full of puns, extravagant word-games, mythical allusions, intricate metres, and...
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T. B. Gregory, J. K. Newman, and T. Meyers
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4 ed.)
...the poem begins by bringing the reader in medias res, prior events must be filled in subsequently. One standard way of doing so is through an embedded narrative told by a guest to a host after a meal, when the host, having fulfilled the first obligations of hospitality, may with courtesy put questions, and the refreshed guest may answer at leisure. Thus, Odysseus relates his famous “wanderings” to the Phaeacian king Alcinous and his court; Aeneas tells of the fall of Troy and the Trojans’ subsequent journey to Dido and her court at Carthage; and in John Milton...
