Guilty knowledge, guilty pleasure : the dirty art of poetry / William Logan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Against aesthetics -- The unbearable rightness of criticism -- Verse chronicle: shock and awe -- Verse chronicle: you betcha! -- The sovereign ghost of Wallace Stevens -- Eliot in ink -- Larkin's toads -- Verse chronicle: from stinko to devo -- Verse chronicle: trampling out the vintage -- A disaster revisited: Frost's notebooks -- Heaney's chain -- Heaney's ghosts -- Verse chronicle: weird science -- Verse chronicle: blah blah blah -- World War II poetry, reloaded -- Frank O'Hara's shopping bag -- The village of Louise Gluck -- Verse chronicle: civil wars -- Verse chronicle: guys and dove -- Nobody's perfect: the letters of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell -- Elizabeth Bishop at The New Yorker -- Elizabeth Bishop at summer camp -- A critic's notebook -- A list of don'ts -- Permissions -- Books under review.