Bibliograph

Dickinson's nerves, Frost's woods, poetry in the shadow of the past, William Logan

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Dickinson's nerves, Frost's woods, poetry in the shadow of the past, William Logan

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dickinson's nerves, Frost's woods

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1012615965

Responsibility statement

William Logan

Sub title

poetry in the shadow of the past

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Shelley's wrinkled lip, Smith's giant leg -- Frost's horse, Wilbur's ride -- Lowell's skunk, Heaney's skunk -- Longfellow's Hiawatha, Carroll's Hiawatha: the name and nature of parody -- Keats's Chapman's homer, Justice's Henry James -- Shakespeare's rotten weeds, Shakespeare's deep trenches -- Pound's metro, Williams's wheelbarrow -- Dickinson's nerves, Frost's woods

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