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A review by avoidingdestiny
Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems by Camille Paglia
3.0
The author has forty-three of the world’s best poems (best English language poems would have been more accurate, IMO, because I hear Rumi had some great stuff) and does close readings.
Not bad. I generally like Donne, esp. Holy Sonnet XIV, so I was glad to see three of his poems included. Took me a while to get through the older poems besides his, and I went through the second half in just a day. I really disagreed with a lot of the author’s interpretations, (and I don’t understand why there was nothing by Frost), but some of them seemed pretty good. (I’d never read Plath’s “Daddy” before, for example, and I liked what she had to say about it.)
Pretty good book if you’re looking for an accessible rundown on some of the more well-known poems in English.
Not bad. I generally like Donne, esp. Holy Sonnet XIV, so I was glad to see three of his poems included. Took me a while to get through the older poems besides his, and I went through the second half in just a day. I really disagreed with a lot of the author’s interpretations, (and I don’t understand why there was nothing by Frost), but some of them seemed pretty good. (I’d never read Plath’s “Daddy” before, for example, and I liked what she had to say about it.)
Pretty good book if you’re looking for an accessible rundown on some of the more well-known poems in English.