Broken Ground : : Poetry and the Demon of History /

Broken Ground : : Poetry and the Demon of History / / William Logan.

In Broken Ground, William Logan explores the works of canonical and contemporary poets, rediscovering the lushness of imagination and depth of feeling that distinguish poetry as a literary art. The book includes long essays on Emily Dickinson’s envelopes, Ezra Pound’s wrestling with Chinese, Robert...

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Logan, William,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Poetry and the Demon of History
  • Dickinson’s Nothings
  • Verse Chronicle: Song and Dance
  • Verse Chronicle: Collateral Damage
  • The Iliad, Reloaded (Alice Oswald)
  • The Beasts and the Bees (Carol Ann Duffy)
  • Two Gents (August Kleinzahler and William Stafford)
  • Kipling Old and New
  • Frost at Letters
  • Verse Chronicle: Seeing the Elephant
  • Verse Chronicle: Civil Power
  • Seven Types of Ambivalence: On Donald Justice
  • A Literary Friendship (Donald Justice and Richard Stern)
  • Randall Jarrell at the Y
  • Flowers of Evil (David Lehman)
  • Verse Chronicle: The Glory Days
  • Verse Chronicle: Doing as the Romans Do
  • Meeting Mr. Hill
  • The Death of Geoffrey Hill
  • Two Strangers (Marie Ponsot and Ishion Hutchinson)
  • The Jill Bialosky Case
  • Jill Bialosky, New Revelations
  • Verse Chronicle: Under the Skin
  • Verse Chronicle: Foreign Affairs
  • Mrs. Custer’s Tennyson
  • Sent to Coventry (Larkin’s “I Remember, I Remember”)
  • The State of Criticism (On Being Asked to Write on the “State of Criticism”)
  • The Perils of Reviewing (On Being Asked, “What Are the Perils of Criticism?”)
  • Verse Chronicle: Home and Away
  • Verse Chronicle: Hither and Yon
  • Pound’s China / Pound’s Cathay
  • Interview with Jonathan Hobratsch (2015)
  • Afterword: The Way We Live Now
  • Permissions
  • Books Under Review
  • Index of Authors Reviewed

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