{"product_id":"work-to-be-done-bruce-whiteman-9781771966092","title":"Work to Be Done: Selected Essays and Reviews","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEssays and critical writing drawn from a wide-ranging fifty-year career in letters\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn from a body of essays and reviews written over the course of nearly fifty years, \u003cem\u003eWork to Be Done\u003c\/em\u003e showcases both the depth and breadth of Bruce Whiteman's critical work. Widely published across Canada and the United States, Whiteman is an accomplished poet, translator, and scholar, and his broad interests have never been limited to any one subject area. He moves between classical and contemporary literature, and music, book and literary history, shifting seamlessly from the close reading of a poem to the consideration of the life and oeuvre of an artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these thirty-four selected essays, Whiteman demonstrates the cohesion of his varied body of work, which ranges from essays on such poets as Sappho, Goethe, Samuel Beckett, P.K. Page, Leonard Cohen and Philip Larkin, to insightful readings of the biographers and translators of such great writers as Ezra Pound and Marcel Proust. \u003cem\u003eWork to Be Done\u003c\/em\u003e is an erudite and eclectic tour of Whiteman's finest critical investigations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bruce Whiteman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1771966092\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771966092\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Biblioasis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d","brand":"Bruce Whiteman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44860606447871,"sku":"9781771966092","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_01f55f7e-10c5-4cbb-91b9-26c165aa8327.jpg?v=1709136457","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/work-to-be-done-bruce-whiteman-9781771966092","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}