Download or read book A Test of Poetry written by Louis Zukofsky and published by Wesleyan. This book was released on 2000-05-26 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By juxtaposing several translations of the same passage from Homer; an elegy from Ovid and lines from Herrick that read like an adaptation of Ovid; or a 15th-century poem about a rooster and a contemporary poem about white chickens, Louis Zukofsky has established a means for judging the values of poetic writing. A wonderful education for the fledgling poet, this handbook, first published in 1948, is the best elucidation of Zukofsky's "objectivist" premises for recognizing value in specific instances of poetry.