Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods: Poetry in the Shadow of the

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Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods: Poetry in the Shadow of the Past

In Dickinsonâ€™s Nerves, Frostâ€™s Woods, William Logan, the noted and often controversial critic of contemporary poetry, returns to some of the greatest poems in English literature. He reveals what we may not have seen before and what his critical eye can do with what he loves. In essays that pair different poemsâ€•â€œOzymandias,â€ â€œOn First Looking Into Chapmanâ€™s Homer,â€ â€œIn a Station of the Metro,â€ â€œThe Red Wheelbarrow,â€ â€œAfter great pain, a formal feeling comes,â€ and â€œStopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,â€ among othersâ€•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. Loganâ€™s criticism is informed by the material culture of that world, whether postal deliveries in Regency London, the MÃ©tro lighting in 1911 Paris, or the wheelbarrows used in 1923. Deeper knowledge of the poetâ€™s daily existence lets us read old poems afresh, providing a new way of understanding poems now encrusted with commentary. Logan shows that criticism cannot just root blindly among the words of the poem but must live partly in a lost world, in the shadow of the poetâ€™s life and the shadow of the age.
Country USA
Brand Columbia University Press
Manufacturer Columbia University Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2018-06-05
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780231186148

Country	USA
Brand	Columbia University Press
Manufacturer	Columbia University Press
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2018-06-05
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780231186148

Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods: Poetry in the Shadow of the Past

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