Notes from Maureen N. McLane's My Poets

Notes from Maureen N. McLane's My Poets (2012)

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⌘ Contents, in descending order: appreciation, criticism, gossip, poetry, confession.

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Notes [oldest to newest]

1. The "readable"

2. Listening to poetry

3. Information in the poetry of Marianne Moore

4. Marianne Moore and the "multiplicity of things"

5. Marianne Moore's "Marriage"

6. Hannah Arendt on poetry and thought

7. Schiller's "the naive" and "the sentimental"

8. Louise Glück on the "hidden world"

9. Daisy Hay's "Young Romantics"

10. Revolution is religious, not political

11. McLane's recommendations, round one

12. Adam Phillips on adolescence

13. Maureen McLane on "corrupting the youth of America"

14. Shelley, poetry, and the imagination

15. McLane on Shelley's longer works

16. McLane's recommendations, round two

17. Lisa Robertson, "The Weather"

18. Olena Kalytiak Davis, "The Lyric 'I' Drives to Pick Up Her Children from School"

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