Robert Hass
Biographic Data
| ID | 6240668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Hass |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Hass |
| SIGNATURE | HASS R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sounding Lines
Sounding Lines captures a vibrant exchange between Nobel poet Seamus Heaney, author of a new translation of Beowulf, and Robert Hass, Poet Laureate and translator of Czeslaw Milosz. In this meandering conversation
Robert Hass
The Apple Trees at Olema
They were walking in the woods along the coast and in a grassy meadow, wasting, they came upon two old neglected apple trees. Moss thickened every bough and the wood of the limbs looked rotten but the trees were wild with blossom and a green fire of small new leaves flickered even on the deadest branches. Blue-eyes, cranes-bills, and little dutchmen flecked the meadow and an intricate, leopard-spotted leaf-green flower whose name they didn't know…
The Origin of Cities
The goddess of cities forbids indolence. She is first seen dancing which is a figure not for art or prayer or the arousal of desire but for action simply; her breastband is copper, her crown imitates the city walls. Though she draws us to her, like a harbor or a rivermouth she sends us away. A figure of the outward. So the old men grown lazy in patrician ways lay out cash for adventures. Imagining a rich return, they buy futures and their slaves …
Against Botticelli
Sounding Lines
Sounding Lines captures a vibrant exchange between Nobel poet Seamus Heaney, author of a new translation of Beowulf, and Robert Hass, Poet Laureate and translator of Czeslaw Milosz. In this meandering conversation
The Origin of Cities
The goddess of cities forbids indolence. She is first seen dancing which is a figure not for art or prayer or the arousal of desire but for action simply; her breastband is copper, her crown imitates the city walls. Though she draws us to her, like a harbor or a rivermouth she sends us away. A figure of the outward. So the old men grown lazy in patrician ways lay out cash for adventures. Imagining a rich return, they buy futures and their slaves …
Against Botticelli
The Apple Trees at Olema
They were walking in the woods along the coast and in a grassy meadow, wasting, they came upon two old neglected apple trees. Moss thickened every bough and the wood of the limbs looked rotten but the trees were wild with blossom and a green fire of small new leaves flickered even on the deadest branches. Blue-eyes, cranes-bills, and little dutchmen flecked the meadow and an intricate, leopard-spotted leaf-green flower whose name they didn't know…
Robert Hass
Sounding Lines
Sounding Lines captures a vibrant exchange between Nobel poet Seamus Heaney, author of a new translation of Beowulf, and Robert Hass, Poet Laureate and translator of Czeslaw Milosz. In this meandering conversation
Geography (3 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Architecture and Cultural Influences (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Cartography (1 work) · Conversation (1 work) · Depth sounding (1 work) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (1 work) · Economic geography (1 work)