Our savage art : poetry and the civil tongue / William Logan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The bowl of diogenes; or, The end of criticism -- Verse chronicle : out on the lawn -- Verse chronicle : stouthearted men -- The most contemptible moth : Lowell in letters -- Forward into the past : reading the new critics -- Verse chronicle : one if by land -- Verse chronicle : the great American desert -- The state with the prettiest name -- Elizabeth Bishop unfinished -- Elizabeth Bishop's sullen art -- Verse chronicle : jumping the shark -- Verse chronicle : Victoria's secret -- Attack of the anthologists -- The lost world of Lawrence Durrell -- Hart Crane overboard -- On reviewing Hart Crane -- The endless ocean of Derek Walcott -- The civil power of Geoffrey Hill -- Verse chronicle : God's chatter -- Verse chronicle : let's do it, let's fall in luff -- Pynchon in the poetic -- Back to the future (Thomas Pynchon) -- Verse chronicle : the world is too much with us -- Verse chronicle : Valentine's Day massacre -- The forgotten masterpiece of John Townsend Trowbridge -- Frost at midnight.