Index of Authors Reviewed

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Against Aesthetics 1
5. The Unbearable Rightness of Criticism 8
6. Verse Chronicle: Shock and Awe 24
7. Verse Chronicle: You Betcha! 39
8. The Sovereign Ghost of Wallace Stevens 54
9. Eliot in Ink 68
10. Larkin’s Toads 73
11. Verse Chronicle: From Stinko to Devo 84
12. Verse Chronicle: Trampling Out the Vintage 99
13. Frost’s Notebooks: A Disaster Revisited 114
14. Heaney’s Chain 130
15. Heaney’s Ghosts 135
16. Verse Chronicle: Weird Science 140
17. Verse Chronicle: Blah Blah Blah 155
18. World War II Poetry, Reloaded 171
19. Frank O’Hara’s Shopping Bag 197
20. The Village of Louise Glück 203
21. Verse Chronicle: Civil Wars 208
22. Verse Chronicle: Guys and Dove 223
23. Nobody’s Perfect: The Letters of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell 237
24. Elizabeth Bishop at the New Yorker 243
25. Elizabeth Bishop at Summer Camp 250
26. A Critic’s Notebook 303
27. A List of Don’ts 318
28. Permissions 321
29. Books Under Review 323
30. Index of Authors Reviewed 327