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Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1948 ...this smug little book is a retreat to modes of learning and convention...If in this collection, then, the poet has occasion to juice up his tone, to rehearse the sequestering pleasures of order perceived as a submission to the old conventions by which we cope with or understand our experience...the impresson given by the twenty-nine brief poems taken generally is one of constraint rather than control. -Richard Howard, Contemporary Literary Criticism 22.
Reprinted from Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith, published by TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press in 1997. Copyright © 1997 by William Meredith. All rights reserved; used by permission of Northwestern University Press and the author.
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