SOURCE: Spiegelman, Willard. “Alphabetizing the Void: Poetic Diction and Poetic Classicism.” Salmagundi 42 (summer/fall 1978): 132-45.
In the following essay, Spiegelman compares the poetry of Nemerov, A. R. Ammons, and Allen Tate, asserting that all three poets have drawn on the classical past and have become masters of linguistic form.
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