Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-262) and index.
Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Image and idea in the poetry of Robert Hayden / Constance J. Post -- Angle of ascent : the poetry of Robert Hayden / Lewis Turco -- "Middle passage" : Robert Hayden's anti-epic / Fred M. Fetrow -- After modernism, after hibernation : Michael Harper, Robert Hayden, and Jay Wright / Robert B. Stepto -- Covenant of timelessness and time : symbolism and history in Robert Hayden's Angle of ascent / Wilburn Williams, Jr -- Robert Hayden's use of history / Charles T. Davis -- Robert Hayden's meditation on art : the final sequence of Words in the mourning time / Fritz Oehlschlaeger -- Changing permanences : historical and literary revisionism in Robert Hayden's "Middle passage" / Vera M. Kutzinski -- A ballad of rememberance (1962) / Pontheolla T. Williams -- Answering The waste land : Robert Hayden and the rise of the African-American poetic sequence / Brian Conniff -- Robert Hayden's Detroit blues elegies / Frank Rashid -- Something patterned, wild, and free : Robert Hayden's Angles of descent and the democratic unconscious / Edward M. Pavlic -- Chronology.
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The essays collected here illuminate the work of an inspired thinker and rigorous craftsman whose achievement places him among the most important American poets of the twentieth century.
Hayden, Robert,1913-1980-- Criticism and interpretation.
Hayden, Robert Earl-- Criticism and interpretation.