Dickinson's nerves, Frost's woods : poetry in the shadow of the past
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Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2018].
Format
Book
ISBN
9780231186148, 0231186142
Physical Desc
396 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2018].
Language
English
ISBN
9780231186148, 0231186142
UPC
40028300492
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-372) and index.
Description
"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." -- Dust jacket.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Chatham Borough-Chatham Township Library - Adult Nonfiction | 821.009 LOG | Available |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Logan, W. (2018). Dickinson's nerves, Frost's woods: poetry in the shadow of the past . Columbia University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Logan, William, 1950 November 16-. 2018. Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods: Poetry in the Shadow of the Past. Columbia University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Logan, William, 1950 November 16-. Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods: Poetry in the Shadow of the Past Columbia University Press, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Logan, William. Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods: Poetry in the Shadow of the Past Columbia University Press, 2018.
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