Circling the Canon, Volume I

The Selected Book Reviews of Marjorie Perloff, 1969-1994

By Marjorie Perloff

Edited by David Jonathan Bayot

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One of our most important contemporary critics, Marjorie Perloff has been a widely published and influential reviewer, especially of poetry and poetics, for over fifty years. Circling the Canon, Volume I covers roughly the first half of Perloff’s career, beginning with her first ever review, on Anthony Hecht’s The Hard Hours. The reviews in this volume, culled from a wide range of scholarly journals, literary reviews, and national magazines, trace the evolution of poetry in the mid- to late twentieth century as well as the evolution of Perloff as a critic. Many of the authors whose works are reviewed in this volume are major figures, such as W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Sylvia Plath, and Frank O’Hara. Others, including Mona Van Duyn and Richard Hugo, were widely praised in their day but are now all but forgotten. Still others—David Antin, Edward Dorn, or the Language poets—exemplify an avant-garde that was to come into its own.

Subjects: Literary Criticism

Contributor Bios

Marjorie Perloff is the author and editor of twenty books, including Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy and 21st-Century Modernism: The New Poetics. She is a Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities emerita at Stanford University.

David Jonathan Bayot is the coauthor or editor of twenty-two books, including Marjorie Perloff’s Poetics in a New Key: Interviews and Essays and Deconstruction After All: Reflections and Conversations. He is the Go Kim Pah Professor of Chinese Literature at De La Salle University and the executive publisher of De La Salle University Publishing House.

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Contents

Preface
David Jonathan Bayot
Acknowledgments
Marjorie Perloff
Introduction
Marjorie Perloff

Chapter One. The Hard Hours
Chapter Two. Yeats as Gnostic
Chapter Three. Extremist Poetry: Some Versions of the Sylvia Plath Myth
Chapter Four. Poetry Chronicle 1970–1971
Chapter Five. Roots and Blossoms
Chapter Six. Sometimes a Great Notion
Chapter Seven. The Poet and His Politics
Chapter Eight. A First Textbook
Chapter Nine. They Were There
Chapter Ten. Battle of the Books
Chapter Eleven. Frank O’Hara: The Poet as Critic
Chapter Twelve. The Poetry of Edward Dorn
Chapter Thirteen. Robert Lowell in Search of Himself
Chapter Fourteen. Talking at the Boundaries
Chapter Fifteen. John Ashbery: Poet of the Decade
Chapter Sixteen. Charles Olson in Connecticut
Chapter Seventeen. The Greening of Charles Olson
Chapter Eighteen. Poetic Artifice
Chapter Nineteen. Modern American Poets
Chapter Twenty. The Dice Cup
Chapter Twenty-One. The Challenge of German Lyric: Goethe and Heine in Translation
Chapter Twenty-Two. The French Connection
Chapter Twenty-Three. The Case of Amy Clampitt: A Reading of “Imago”
Chapter Twenty-Four. “Dirty” Language and Scramble Systems
Chapter Twenty-Five. Hölderlin Our Contemporary
Chapter Twenty-Six. Of Canons and Contemporaries
Chapter Twenty-Seven. Agon
Chapter Twenty-Eight. Theories of the Avant-Garde
Chapter Twenty-Nine. The Rise and Fall of English Modernism
Chapter Thirty. Sylvia Plath as Cultural Icon
Chapter Thirty-One. What to Make of a Diminished Thing
Chapter Thirty-Two. The Poetry of Kurt Schwitters

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