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Zusatztext Logan's ear can be superb! and when he's on charitable form! he can teach any reader to hear better. There are many such moments in Dickinson's Nerves! Frost's Woods; whole passages of forensic attention that serve as examples to critical thought. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes Toward an Introduction 1. Shelley's Wrinkled Lip! Smith's Gigantic Leg 2. Frost's Horse! Wilbur's Ride 3. Lowell's Skunk! Heaney's Skunk 4. Longfellow's Hiawatha! Carroll's Hiawatha: The Name and Nature of Parody 5. Keats's Chapman's Homer! Justice's Henry James 6. Shakespeare's Rotten Weeds! Shakespeare's Deep Trenches 7. Pound's Métro! Williams's Wheelbarrow 8. Dickinson's Nerves! Frost's Woods Permissions Notes Index
