The Poet's Mistake / / Erica McAlpine.
What our tendency to justify the mistakes in poems reveals about our faith in poetry—and about how we readKeats mixed up Cortez and Balboa. Heaney misremembered the name of one of Wordsworth's lakes. Poetry—even by the greats—is rife with mistakes. In The Poet's Mistake, critic and poet Er...
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| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The Poet’s Mistake
- Chapter 1. Wordsworth’s Imperfect Perfect
- Chapter 2. Robert Browning’s Bad Habit
- Chapter 3. Wondering about John Clare
- Chapter 4. Emily Dickinson’s Eloquent Lies
- Chapter 5. Hart Crane’s Wrapture
- Chapter 6. Fact-Checking Elizabeth Bishop
- Chapter 7. Misremembering Seamus Heaney
- Conclusion. Mistaking on Purpose
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index