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Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure - The Dirty Art of Poetry (Hardcover)
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Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure - The Dirty Art of Poetry (Hardcover)
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William Logan has been a thorn in the side of American poetry for
more than three decades. Though he has been called the "most hated
man in American poetry," his witty and articulate reviews have
reminded us how muscular good reviewing can be. These new essays
and reviews take poetry at its word, often finding in its hardest
cases the greatest reasons for hope. Logan begins with a
devastating polemic against the wish to have critics announce their
aesthetics every time they begin a review. "The Unbearable
Rightness of Criticism" is a plea to read those critics who got it
wrong when they reviewed Lyrical Ballads or Leaves of Grass or The
Waste Land. Sometimes, he argues, such critics saw exactly what
these books were-they saw the poems plain yet often did not see
that they were poems. In such wrongheaded criticism, readers can
recover the ground broken by such groundbreaking books. Logan looks
again at the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Frank O'Hara, and Philip
Larkin; at the letters of T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert
Lowell; and at new books by Louise Gluck and Seamus Heaney. Always
eager to overturn settled judgments, Logan argues that World War II
poets were in the end better than the much-lauded poets of World
War I. He revisits the secretly revised edition of Robert Frost's
notebooks, showing that the terrible errors ruining the first
edition still exist. The most remarkable essay is "Elizabeth Bishop
at Summer Camp," which prints for the first time her early
adolescent verse along with the intimate letters written to the
first girl she loved.
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