| Abstrakt: |
With the publication of Untitled Subjects (1969) and Findings (1971), Richard Howard was acknowledged as a master of the dramatic monologue, a one-sided verse conversation during which the reader gains insight into the character of the speaker. With “Wildflowers” and the other five lengthy poems in Two-Part Inventions, however, he explores the possibilities of a new form: the dramatic dialogue. “Wildflowers,” for example, attempts to render a conversation between two great figures of nineteenth century literature: the American poet Walt Whitman, author of Leaves of Grass (1855), and the Irish-born poet and dramatist Oscar Wilde. |
