Author:
Logan, William, 1950 November 16- author.
ImprintNew York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Description396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note: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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note: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.
