This book (re) constructs some of the major poetic personalities of not too distant a past, and of different cultures and nations: Tagore, Whitman, Yeats, and Eliot, from the pages of their books of poems. Maintaining a clear distinction between the real self as biographically constructed and the poetic self as constituted in the poetic text, the author reads the silent and implicit narrative that connects poem to poem. He reconciles the autobiographical act and ...
