Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods: Poetry in the Shadow of the Past

by William Logan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231186142
• ISBN13: 9780231186148
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"