CAHSS Faculty Articles
Critics of Philippine Poets
Publication Title
Philippine Studies
ISSN
2244-1093
Publication Date
1-1-1999
Abstract
Excerpt
If a prominent Filipino poet publishes a collection of verse or has a single poem or a group of poems in a prestigious anthology, literary critics usually take notice. When Carlos Angeles published A Stun of Jewels, for instance, not only did contemporary reviewers like Dharam, Makabenta, and Mercado react in the newspapers, but so did, over the years, critics like San Juan and Tiempo in journal articles. And even before his first book, Angeles had come to the attention of Edwardson because of excellent individual works.
However, although there are exemptions—cf., my "Half-Velvet and Half-Trapped" and "Epifanio San Juan, Jr., as Poet," respectively discussions of an outstanding poem by a relatively obscure author and a discussion of a prominent author of three collections of verse published over several decades—meritorious works still can fall by the explicatory wayside.
Volume
47
Issue
4
NSUWorks Citation
Grow, L. M. (1999). Critics of Philippine Poets. Philippine Studies, 47 (4) Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_facarticles/113
