{"product_id":"guilty-knowledge-guilty-pleasure-william-logan-9780231166867","title":"Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure: The Dirty Art of Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam 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,\" 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 devastating polemic against the wish to have critics announce their aesthetics every time they begin a review. \"The Unbearable Rightness of Criticism\" is a plea to read those critics who got it wrong when they reviewed \u003ci\u003eLyrical Ballads\u003c\/i\u003e or\u003ci\u003e Leaves of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e or\u003ci\u003e The Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLogan looks again at the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Frank O'Hara, and Philip Larkin; at the letters of T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Lowell; and at new books by Louise Gl?k 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 Frost's notebooks, showing that the terrible errors ruining the first edition still exist. The most remarkable essay is \"Elizabeth Bishop at Summer Camp,\" which prints for the first time her early adolescent verse along with the intimate letters written to the first girl she loved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Logan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231166869\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231166867\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2014 pg. 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2014 pg. 446","brand":"William Logan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45482430005503,"sku":"9780231166867","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ce66b3ea-8c26-4586-9991-000b62e583d4.jpg?v=1715998508","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/guilty-knowledge-guilty-pleasure-william-logan-9780231166867","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}