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Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods
Poetry in the Shadow of the Past
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English
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2018
About this book
William Logan reconciles history and poetry to provide new ways of reading poets ranging from Shakespeare and Shelley to Lowell and Heaney. In these striking essays, Logan presents the poetry of the past through the lens of the past, attempting to bring poems back to the world in which they were made.
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William Logan is Alumni/ae Professor and Distinguished Teaching Scholar at the University of Florida. He is the author of The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin (2005); Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue (2009); and Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure: The Dirty Art of Poetry (2012), all from Columbia University Press, as well as eleven books of poems and other works of criticism.
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[William Logan] should be declared a national treasure. . . . Reading this book, one learns how to listen carefully, notice details, and ask discerning questions. . . . Each chapter contrasts two poets (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow & Lewis Carroll, John Keats & Donald Justice, Emily Dickinson & Robert Frost, etc.) and overflows (at times) with insights and delightful digressions that are guaranteed to inspire literary scholars for generations.
William Pritchard, Amherst College:
Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods only confirms and enriches my sense that William Logan is the most outstanding critic of poetry now practicing in America. An extraordinary critical effort.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
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Notes Toward an Introduction
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1. Shelley’s Wrinkled Lip, Smith’s Gigantic Leg
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2. Frost’s Horse, Wilbur’s Ride
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3. Lowell’s Skunk, Heaney’s Skunk
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4. Longfellow’s Hiawatha, Carroll’s Hiawatha: The Name and Nature of Parody
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5. Keats’s Chapman’s Homer, Justice’s Henry James
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6. Shakespeare’s Rotten Weeds, Shakespeare’s Deep Trenches
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7. Pound’s Métro, Williams’s Wheelbarrow
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8. Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods
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Permissions
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Notes
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Index
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September 24, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9780231546515
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21 images
eBook ISBN:
9780231546515
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