Guilty knowledge, guilty pleasure : the dirty art of poetry /
William Logan.
- x, 328 pages ; 24 cm
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.
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American poetry--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--20th century Criticism--History--United States--20th century. American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century Poetry--Authorship. Poetics.