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Tables of Contents for Desperate Measures
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xi
The Other Other Frost
1
36
Abroad and at Home
Ted Hughes, Eavan Boland, John Ashbery, Paul Muldoon
27
10
The Fallen World of Geoffrey Hill
37
42
Dreams of an Uncommon Tongue
Gjertrud Schnackenberg, C. K. Williams, Thom Gunn
51
6
A Material World
Jorie Graham, Richard Kenney, James Fenton
57
6
Old Faithfuls
W. S. Merwin, Mona Van Duyn, John Ashbery
63
16
Pound at the Post Office
79
23
Eliot among the Metaphysicals
102
21
Classics and Commercials
Christopher Logue and Alice Fulton
111
6
In the Lectureship of Verse
Seamus Heaney, Helen Vendler, Anthony Hecht
117
6
The Bounty of Derek Walcott
123
4
Verse Chronicle: Martyrs to Language
127
14
Verse Chronicle: Gravel on the Tongue
141
14
The Unbearable Lightness of Elizabeth Bishop
155
20
Lowell in the Shadows
175
12
Verse Chronicle: Old Guys
187
15
Verse Chronicle: Hardscrabble Country
202
15
Richard Wilbur's Civil Tongue
217
21
Verse Chronicle: Betrayals of the Tongue
238
16
Verse Chronicle: Soiled Desires
254
20
Three Magi
Charles Wright, Edward Hirsch, Henri Cole
269
5
Four or Five Motions toward a Poetics
274
15
Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Abbreviated
289
40
Books under Review
329
4
Credits
333