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Broken ground : poetry and the demon of history /

"In Broken Ground, William Logan explores the works of canonical and contemporary poets, rediscovering the lushness of imagination and depth of feeling that distinguish poetry as a literary art. The book includes long essays on Emily Dickinson's envelopes, Ezra Pound's wrestling with...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Logan, William, 1950 November 16- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Poetry and the demon of history
  • Dickinson's nothings
  • Verse chronicle : song and dance
  • Verse chronicle : collateral damage
  • The Iliad, reloaded (Alice Oswald)
  • The beasts and the bees (Carol Ann Duffy)
  • Two gents (August Kleinzahler and William Stafford)
  • Kipling old and new
  • Frost at letters
  • Verse chronicle : seeing the elephant
  • Verse chronicle : civil power
  • Seven types of ambivalence : on Donald Justice
  • A literary friendship (Donald Justice and Richard Stern)
  • Randall Jarrell at the Y
  • Flowers of evil (David Lehman)
  • Verse chronicle : the glory days
  • Verse chronicle : doing as the Romans do
  • Meeting Mr. Hill
  • The death of Geoffrey Hill
  • Two strangers (Marie Ponsot and Ishion Hutchinson)
  • The Jill Bialosky case
  • Jill Bialosky, new revelations
  • Verse chronicle : under the skin
  • Verse chronicle : foreign affairs
  • Mrs. Custer's Tennyson
  • Sent to coventry : Larkin's "I remember, I remember"
  • The state of criticism (On being asked to write on the "State of criticism")
  • The perils of reviewing (On being asked, "What are the perils of criticism?")
  • Verse chronicle : home and away
  • Verse chronicle : hither and yon
  • Pound's China, Pound's Cathay
  • Interview with Jonathan Hobratsch (2015)
  • Afterword: The way we live now.