000 02001cam 2200253 a 45e0
001 591232
003 OCoLC
005 19990310091626.0
008 970626s1998 cau b 001 0 eng
010 $a97027591
035 $a(OCoLC)37239051
040 $aDLC$cDLC
020 $a0804729379 (alk. paper)
050 00 $aPN1042$b.C586 1998
049 $aABCC
100 1 $aCook, Eleanor.
245 10 $aAgainst coercion :$bgames poets play /$cEleanor
Cook.
260 $aStanford, Calif. :$bStanford University
Press,$c1998.
300 $axiv, 318 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 273-305)
and indexes.
505 0 $aI. Empire, war, nation. Eliot, Keynes, and empire
: The waste land -- Schemes against coercion : Geoffrey
Hill, Elizabeth Bishop, and others -- Fables of war in
Elizabeth Bishop -- Faulkner, typology, and Black history
in Go down, Moses -- "A seeing and unseeing in the eye" :
Canadian literature and the sense of place. II. Culture
and the uses of memory : allusion. Questions of allusion
-- The language of scripture in Wordsworth's Prelude --
The senses of Eliot's salvages -- Wallace Stevens and the
King James Bible -- Birds in paradise : revisions of a topos
in Milton, Keats, Whitman, Stevens, and Ammons. III. Poets
at play. Melos versus logos, or, Why doesn't God sing? :
some thoughts on Milton's wisdom -- The poetics of modern
punning : Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and others --
Riddles, charms, and fictions in Wallace Stevens -- The
function of riddles at the present time -- The flying
griphos : in pursuit of enigma from Aristophanes to
Toursenol, with stops in Carroll, Ariosto, and Dante. IV.
Practice. Ghost rhymes and how they work -- Methought as
dream formula in Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats,
and others -- Reading a poem : on John Hollander's "Owl" --
Teaching poetry : accurate songs, or thinking-in-poetry.
650 0 $aPoetics.
650 0 $aPoetry$xHistory and criticism.
910 $a591232 c1d
