3. The Unweary Blues. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar.How the Arts Help Us to Live 15
5. 2. Fin-de-Siècle Lyric. W. B. Yeats and Jorie Graham 27
6. 3. The Unweary Blues. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes 43
7. 4. The Nothing That Is. Chickamauga, by Charles Wright 62
8. 5. American X-Rays. Forty Years of Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry 71
9. 6. The Waste Land. Fragments and Montage 79
10. 7. The Snow Poems and Garbage. Episodes in A. R. Ammons’s Poetics 92
11. 8. All Her Nomads. Collected Poems, by Amy Clampitt 120
12. 9. Seamus Heaney and the Oresteia. “Mycenae Lookout” and the Usefulness of Tradition 130
13. 10. Melville. The Lyric of History 144
14. 11. Lowell’s Persistence. The Forms Depression Makes 160
15. 12. Wallace Stevens. Hypotheses and Contradictions, Dedicated to Paul Alpers 177
16. 13. Ardor and Artifice. Merrill’s Mozartian Touch 199
17. 14. The Titles. A. R. Ammons, 1926–2001 211
18. 15. Poetry and the Mediation of Value. Whitman on Lincoln 226
19. 16. “Long Pig”. The Interconnection of the Exotic, the Dead, and the Fantastic in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop 241
20. 17. Stevens and Keats’s “To Autumn”. Reworking the Past 253
21. 18. “The Circulation of Small Largenesses”. Mark Ford and John Ashbery 274
22. 19. Wallace Stevens. Memory, Dead and Alive 289
23. 20. Jorie Graham. The Moment of Excess 304
24. 21. Attention, Shoppers. Where Shall I Wander, by John Ashbery 322
25. 22. Seamus Heaney’s “Sweeney Redivivus”. Its Plot and Its Poems 332
26. 23. The Democratic Eye. A Worldly Country, by John Ashbery 356
27. 24. Losing the Marbles: James Merrill on Greece 368
28. 25. Mark Ford: Intriguing, Funny, Prophetic 389
29. 26. Notes from the Trepidarium. Stay, Illusion, by Lucie Brock-Broido 399
30. 27. Pried Open for All the World to See. Berryman the Poet 410
31. Notes 423
32. Credits 431
33. Ac know ledg ments 435
34. Index 437