{"product_id":"more-classics-revisited-9780811210836","title":"More Classics Revisited","description":"\u003cem\u003eMore Classics Revisited\u003c\/em\u003e is the second volume of the late poet and polymath Kenneth Rexroth's brilliant, succinct analyses of some of the key documents in literary history. It presents East and West: from the Bible, the Bhagavad-Gita, and the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu to the works of Karl Marx, Charles Baudelaire, and William Carlos Williams. Supplementing the sixty short essays originally published as \u003cem\u003eClassics Revisited\u003c\/em\u003e in 1969 are forty-one pieces from \u003cem\u003eWith Eye and Ear\u003c\/em\u003e (1970) and \u003cem\u003eThe Elastic Retort\u003c\/em\u003e (1973), both long out of print, as well as various previously uncollected or unpublished essays. Taken together, these hundred and one critiques stand, writes editor Bradford Morrow, \"as a primer, or Baedeker, to a whole terrain of thought, to one man's study of imagination and its field of conjuries.\" The New Directions edition of \u003cem\u003eClassics Revisited\u003c\/em\u003e was chosen as a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selection, attesting to the wide appeal of Rexroth's learning and humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRexroth, Kenneth:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Poet-essayist \u003cstrong\u003eKenneth Rexroth\u003c\/strong\u003e (1905-1982) was a high-school dropout, disillusioned ex-Communist, pacifist, anarchist, rock-climber, critic and translator, mentor, Catholic-Buddhist spiritualist and a prominent figure of San Francisco's Beat scene. He is regarded as a central figure of the San Francisco Renaissance and is among the first American poets to explore traditional Japanese forms such as the haiku.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50924546752786,"sku":"9780811210836","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2d5f6828-1c80-4990-a8c3-7c998cd2253a.jpg?v=1738972075","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/more-classics-revisited-9780811210836","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}