Louis Zukofsky | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 22 pages of analysis & critique of Louis Zukofsky.

Louis Zukofsky | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 22 pages of analysis & critique of Louis Zukofsky.
This section contains 6,352 words
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SOURCE: An interview in Contemporary Literature, Vol. 10, No. 2, Spring, 1969, pp. 203-19.

Dembo is an American educator and critic who is the author of Conceptions of Reality in Modern American Poetry (1966), as well as book-length studies on the poets Hart Crane and Ezra Pound. In the following interview, Zukofsky explains his views on poetry.

[Dembo]: I know that "objectivism" was short-lived as a movement, if it ever existed at all, but your essay in the February 1931 issue of Poetry does seem to suggest a particular way of looking at reality. In fact, you actually use the term nominalism in connection with André Salmon. Wouldn't you say that your own poems from the beginning attempted to get away from normal generalization and theme to present an experience of the object or of nature directly?

[Zukofsky]: Well, I don't want to get involved in philosophy. I might as well say that...

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