U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass considers some of the twentiethcentury poets who bring him pleasure: Robert Lowll JamesWright Tomas Transtromer Joseph Brodsky Yvor WintersRobert Creeley James McMichael Czeslaw Milosz and othersin this his first collection of essays. Originally published in1984 Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry won theNational Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. A new collection of Robert Hass''s essays will be published by Ecco in 1998.