Rexroth, Kenneth 1905-1982

Overview

Works:	633 works in 1,445 publications in 5 languages and 43,078 library holdings
Genres:	Criticism, interpretation, etc Poetry Literature Essays History Fiction Biography Records and correspondence Manuscripts
Roles:	Author, Translator, Editor, Signer, Performer, Narrator, Author of introduction, Compiler, Lyricist, Other, Interviewee, Librettist, Recipient, Correspondent
Classifications:	PS3535.E923, 811.52

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Kenneth Rexroth

Kenneth Rexroth by Morgan Gibson( Book )
The beats : a graphic history by Harvey Pekar( Book )
A life of Kenneth Rexroth by Linda Hamalian( Book )
An autobiographical novel by Kenneth Rexroth( Book )
Revolutionary Rexroth, poet of East-West wisdom by Morgan Gibson( Book )

Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin : selected letters by Kenneth Rexroth( Book )
The Holiness of the real : the short verse of Kenneth Rexroth by Donald Gutierrez( Book )
Naked heart : talking on poetry, mysticism, and the erotic by William Everson( Book )
Selected poems by D. H Lawrence( Book )
Kenneth Rexroth : a checklist of his published writings by James F Hartzell( Book )
Kenneth Rexroth by Lee Bartlett( Book )
The relevance of Rexroth by Ken Knabb( Book )
In the Sierra : mountain writings by Kenneth Rexroth( Book )
Sky, sea, birds, trees, earth, house, beasts, flowers by Kenneth Rexroth( Book )
Excerpts from a life by Kenneth Rexroth( Book )
Between two wars : selected poems written prior to the Second World War by Kenneth Rexroth( Book )
Thomas Merton and the beats of the North Cascades by Ron Dart( Book )
Poesie di Kenneth Rexroth (1920-1956) by Daniela M Ciani Forza( Book )
Poetry criticism, excerpts from criticism of the works of the most significant and widely studied poets of world literature by Carol T Gaggke( Book )
Kenneth Rexroth : a bibliographic checklist of work by the master poet of the San Francisco literary renaissance featuring the complete books published together with selected broadsides & works translated by Lee Perron( Book )

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Most widely held works by Kenneth Rexroth

American poetry : the twentieth century( Book )

1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 2,352 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains over 1500 poems by more than 200 well-known American poets, including Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens

One hundred poems from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth( Book )

37 editions published between 1900 and 2013 in English and held by 1,511 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Includes poems from the T'and Dynasty and the Sung Dynasty, with biographical and explanatory notes on the poets and poems

One hundred poems from the Japanese by Kenneth Rexroth( Book )

31 editions published between 1955 and 2008 in English and held by 1,508 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of Japanese poems accompanied by their English translations

Classics revisited by Kenneth Rexroth( Book )

30 editions published between 1967 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 1,490 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Poet, translator, essayist and voracious reader--Kenneth Rexroth was an omnivore in the fields of literature. The brief, radiant essays of Classics Revisted discuss sixty key books that are, for Rexroth, "basic documents in the history of the imagination." Ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Huckleberry Finn, these pieces (each three or four pages long) originally appeared in the Saturday Review."--Back cover

The collected shorter poems by Kenneth Rexroth( Book )

26 editions published between 1960 and 2015 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,343 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This volume brings together all of Kenneth Rexroth's shorter poems from 1920 to the present, including a group of new poems written since the publication of Natural Numbers, drawn from seven earlier books. This volume brings together all of Kenneth Rexroth's shorter poems from 1920 to the present, including a group of new poems written since the publication of Natural Numbers, drawn from seven earlier books. Among the American poets of the generation that came to prominence in the Forties, Kenneth Rexroth has been notable both for the independence of his personal voice and for his accessibility to the tradition of international avant-garde literature

American poetry in the twentieth century by Kenneth Rexroth( Book )

22 editions published between 1971 and 1975 in English and Spanish and held by 1,181 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

One of America's leading poets and critics offers a major interpretation of the poetry and poets of modern America, from the radical bohemians at the turn of the century through the leftist poets of the twenties, the reactionaries of the thirties and forties, the gradual emergence of the San Francisco school after the Second World War, to the more recent poetry of Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, Gary Snyder. It is a work of re-experiencing the poems themselves, and in the process Kenneth Rexroth provides a controversial new look at the standard authors and boldly redefines the value of such poets as Levertov, Moore, and Lowell. This new paperback edition has been supplemented by a complete index of poets and a list of suggested readings. --back cover

The collected longer poems by Kenneth Rexroth( Book )

24 editions published between 1968 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,137 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

New poems by Kenneth Rexroth( Book )

20 editions published between 1971 and 1999 in 3 languages and held by 1,027 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The alternative society : essays from the other world by Kenneth Rexroth( Book )

12 editions published between 1970 and 1972 in English and held by 996 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Communalism : from its origins to the twentieth century by Kenneth Rexroth( Book )

12 editions published between 1974 and 1975 in English and Undetermined and held by 929 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Traces the evolution of communal principles in such historic cooperative living situations as the Essenes, the early Church, the Shakers, and Brook Farm

Bird in the bush; obvious essays by Kenneth Rexroth( Book )

16 editions published between 1959 and 1970 in English and held by 879 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

With eye and ear by Kenneth Rexroth( Book )

7 editions published in 1970 in English and held by 803 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selected poems by D. H Lawrence( Book )

21 editions published between 1947 and 1978 in English and held by 794 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The leading poet of his generation, James Fenton has over the course of his career built a body of work breathtaking in its range and sensibility. From the passionate political poems that launched him into fame to the intimate illuminations of love--and loss of love--in his later work, Fenton's poetry has always been marked by formal daring, wit, and an abiding empathy for the victims of war and political oppression. With selections from all of his published work since The Memory of War, the entire text of his libretto The Love Bomb, and new, previously uncollected poems, Selected Poems is an imaginative and formal tour de force."--Publisher's website

An autobiographical novel by Kenneth Rexroth( Book )

22 editions published between 1966 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 784 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Early life of the poet, painter, man of letters, and social critic

Selected poems by Kenneth Rexroth( Book )

19 editions published between 1968 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 782 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Poems deal with love, sensuality, nature, the seasons, death, justice, music, war, and travel

Assays by Kenneth Rexroth( Book )

20 editions published between 1951 and 1961 in English and Undetermined and held by 748 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Essays on a variety of cultural topics and personalities

The elastic retort; essays in literature and ideas by Kenneth Rexroth( Book )

2 editions published in 1973 in English and held by 748 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The new British poets : an anthology by Kenneth Rexroth( Book )

16 editions published between 1948 and 1976 in English and held by 734 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

One hundred more poems from the Japanese by Kenneth Rexroth( Book )

10 editions published between 1974 and 1997 in English and held by 728 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Love and the turning year; one hundred more poems from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth( Book )

8 editions published in 1970 in English and held by 708 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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