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Considering the Radiance: Essays on the Poetry Of A. R. Ammons

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Friends called him Archie. He lived from 1926 to 2001. He had difficulties reading his work in public. Two of the mentors of A.R. Ammons were Josephine Miles and Josephine Jacobsen.

At age 26 he was the principal of an elementary school. He wrote of the marshes of New Jersey, CORSON'S INLET. 1955 marked the end of the career of Wallace Stevens and the start of the career of A.R. Ammons. In prose Ammons wrote "A Poem is a Walk". John Wheelwright and A.R. Ammons both had tics and quirks asserts John Ashbery.

Ammons's landscape is American. He worked at a glass factory in New Jersey. He rose to the top rank of American poets quietly. As a whole, Ammons's poetry is religious in character. Ammons wrote pastoral poems. Frost's country speakers are more sociable than the abrupt utterances of Ammons. Natural facts, closely observed, tick through his verse.

Archie Ammons was a natural philosopher. He brought the short abstract lyric to perfection. He was prolific and maintained that anxiety was the source of his writing. Ammons wrote his book-length poems on adding machine tape.