Pure Simon.(Dreamers of Dreams: Essays on Poets and Poetry)(Review)

National Review | December 3, 2001| | Copyright

Dreamers of Dreams: Essays on Poets and Poetry, by John Simon (Ivan R. Dee, 265 pp., $26)

National Review readers are familiar with John Simon's writing about movies, but in other venues he has written on just about everything, and with the same stringency. Here we have him on poets and poetry, and it is a dazzling book. Simon is courageously lucid, literate in several languages, formidably erudite, and can turn a phrase into a rapier-as when he observes that Whitman reads as well (or badly) in French as in English.

Woven into these fine essays are bits of autobiography. ...

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