William Logan has been a thorn in the side of American poetry for more than three decades. Though he has been called the “most hated man in American poetry;rdquo; his witty and articulate reviews have reminded us how muscular good reviewing can be. These new essays and reviews take poetry at its word; often finding in its hardest cases the greatest reasons for hope. Logan begins with a witty polemic against the wish to have critics announce their aesthetics every time they begin a review. “The Unbearable Rightness of Criticismrdquo; is a plea to read those critics who got it wrong when they reviewed Lyrical Ballads or Leaves of Grass or The Waste Land. Sometimes; he argues; such critics saw exactly what these books were—they saw the poems plain; yet often did not see that they were poems. In such wrongheaded criticism; readers can recover the ground broken by such groundbreaking books. Logan looks again at the poetry of Wallace Stevens; Frank Orsquo;Hara; and Philip Larkin; at the letters of T. S. Eliot; Elizabeth Bishop; and Robert Lowell; and at new books by Louise Gluuml;ck and Seamus Heaney. Always eager to overturn settled judgments; Logan argues that World War II poets were in the end better than the much-lauded poets of World War I. He revisits the secretly revised edition of Robert Frostrsquo;s notebooks; showing that the terrible errors ruining the first edition still exist. The most remarkable essay is “Elizabeth Bishop at Summer Camp;rdquo; which prints for the first time her early adolescent verse; along with the intimate letters written to the first girl she loved.
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