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

William Logan

Published by Columbia University Press 2018

Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods

Poetry in the Shadow of the Past

William Logan

https://doi.org/10.7312/loga18614

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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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

[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 Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Notes Toward an Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Shelley’s Wrinkled Lip, Smith’s Gigantic Leg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2. Frost’s Horse, Wilbur’s Ride Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
3. Lowell’s Skunk, Heaney’s Skunk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
4. Longfellow’s Hiawatha, Carroll’s Hiawatha: The Name and Nature of Parody Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
5. Keats’s Chapman’s Homer, Justice’s Henry James Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
6. Shakespeare’s Rotten Weeds, Shakespeare’s Deep Trenches Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
7. Pound’s Métro, Williams’s Wheelbarrow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
8. Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Permissions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: General/trade;
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- Other: 21 images

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Published: September 24, 2018
ISBN: 9780231546515