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Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods - Poetry in the Shadow of the Past (Hardcover)
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Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods - Poetry in the Shadow of the Past (Hardcover)
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In Dickinson's Nerves, Frost'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 poems-"Ozymandias," "On First
Looking Into Chapman's Homer," "In a Station of the Metro," "The
Red Wheelbarrow," "After great pain, a formal feeling comes," and
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," among others-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. Logan's criticism is informed by the material
culture of that world, whether postal deliveries in Regency London,
the Metro lighting in 1911 Paris, or the wheelbarrows used in 1923.
Deeper knowledge of the poet'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 poet's life and the shadow of the
age.
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