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Warden, Will, Review of Guide to the Ruins,St. Louis Post-
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For Further Study
Bartholomay, Julia A., The Shield of Perseus: The Vision
and Imagination of Howard Nemerov,University of Florida
Press, 1972.
This early study of Nemerov focuses on such issues
as the role of the imagination in poetic composition,
the place of art in the world, and questions of intel-
lectual and sensory perception.
Mills, William, The Stillness in Moving Things: The World
of Howard Nemerov,Memphis State University Press, 1975.
This book, a close reading of many of Nemerov’s po-
ems throughout his career (at least up to 1975), fo-
cuses on Nemerov’s philosophical concerns and his
attitudes toward artistic perception and the question
of what to portray in poetry.Potts, Donna L., Howard Nemerov and Objective Idealism,
University of Missouri Press, 1994.
Potts concentrates on the philosophical issues raised
by Nemerov’s poetry, using the epistemologist Owen
Barfield (an acknowledged source for Nemerov’s
ideas) to read the verse.The Phoenix