The satirical rogue on poetry.

[Amherst] : University of Massachusetts Press, 1968., 1968. Very Good. [1st edition] ; 123 pp. ; 21 cm. ; LCCN: 68-13940 ; LC: PS3511.R237; Dewey: 814/.5/2 ; OCLC: 284473 ; textured off-white cloth with gold lettering, in brown and blue dustjacket ; spine sunned ; tiny tear on back panel of dustjacket ; little essays o n poetry and writing touch on a variety of poetical points of view ; Contents: Be brutal -- Either or -- On looking like a poet -- Blood -- Defense of poetry -- Lyric as arrow -- Black eye -- In her own right -- On the exquisite air -- Distinction - - Teacher -- The muse -- Poetic license -- Scenes -- Poet as Bird -- Art of slow reading -- Word-count -- Half-god -- Garret -- Love me, love my poems -- It really isn't -- Bad poem -- With and without honorarium -- Lounge -- Frost as mugqump -- Poe try as a source of suffering -- By the rude bridge that arched the flood -- Production belt -- Labels -- Somebody-nobody -- Santayana Columbus and Samuel Eliot Morison -- The pathetic fallacy -- The man who wrote one poem -- Dame Edith -- Duty -- Poetry as an un-American activity -- Too busy for both -- The messy muse -- Mr. Eliot's cats -- Non-criticism -- Wild but polished -- Goddess -- Advantages of being a poet -- No poem so fine -- Woman with the tape recorder -- Emily and I -- Silent poe try -- Hard -- Poetry as stuff -- Lowell -- Poet on the platform -- Redress of grievance -- To dislike poetry is not necessarily yo disparage it -- Chaos -- First person singular -- Poet as noble achievement -- Vacations -- The Disillusioning blurb -- A golden simplicity? -- Required reading -- Professional poet -- Poetry and poverty -- The indecipherable poem -- Electronically equipped -- The satirical rogue -- Patient and a monument -- Poetry and power -- Logic -- John Quincy Adams -- Publisher as wife -- Style -- Poetry as a competitive pursuit -- The well-made poem -- Crowds -- Modest check -- Group reviews -- Yarrow -- Weighed in the balance -- A small door -- Other arts, other artists -- Peacock -- In a brazen world -- Slender -- Introducing the poet. ; Robert Francis was born in Upland, Pennsylvania, and educated at Harvard. ; VG/VG