Guilty knowledge, guilty pleasure : the dirty art of poetry /

Logan, William, 1950 November 16-

Guilty knowledge, guilty pleasure : the dirty art of poetry / William Logan. - x, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Against aesthetics -- The unbearable rightness of criticism -- Verse chronicle: shock and awe -- Verse chronicle: you betcha! -- The sovereign ghost of Wallace Stevens -- Eliot in ink -- Larkin's toads -- Verse chronicle: from stinko to devo -- Verse chronicle: trampling out the vintage -- Frost's notebooks: A disaster revisited -- Heaney's chain -- Heaney's ghosts -- Verse chronicle: weird science -- Verse chronicle: blah blah blah -- World War II poetry, reloaded -- Frank O'Hara's shopping bag -- The village of Louise Gluck -- Verse chronicle: civil wars -- Verse chronicle: guys and dove -- Nobody's perfect: the letters of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell -- Elizabeth Bishop at The New Yorker -- Elizabeth Bishop at summer camp -- A critic's notebook -- A list of don'ts -- Permissions -- Books under review.

0231166869 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9780231166867 (hbk. : alk. paper)

2013030071

016642545 Uk


American poetry--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--20th century
American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Criticism--History--United States--20th century.
Poetics.
Poetry--Authorship.

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