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I. 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. |
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