Our savage art
Subtitle: poetry and the civil tongue
By: William Logan.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780231147323; 9780231519618
Subjects: American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The bowl of diogenes; or, The end of criticism; title: Verse chronicle: Out on the lawn; title: Verse chronicle: Stouthearted men; title: The most contemptible moth: Lowell in letters; title: Forward into the past: reading the new critics; title: Verse chronicle: One if by land; title: Verse chronicle: The great American desert; title: The state with the prettiest name; title: Elizabeth Bishop Unfinished; title: Elizabeth Bishop's Sullen art; title: Verse chronicle: Jumping the shark; title: Verse chronicle: Victoria's secret; title: Attack of the anthologists; title: The lost world of Lawrence Durrell; title: Hart Crane Overboard; title: On reviewing Hart Crane; title: The endless ocean of Derek Walcott; title: The civil power of Geoffrey Hill; title: Verse chronicle: God's chatter; title: Verse chronicle: Let's do it, let's fall in luff; title: Pynchon in the poetic; title: Back to the future (Thomas Pynchon); title: Verse chronicle: The world is too much with us; title: Verse chronicle: Valentine's Day massacre; title: The forgotten masterpiece of John Townsend Trowbridge; title: Frost at midnight.