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The corner of his eye
In this review in The New Criterion, William Logan means to praise with faint damns Seamus Heaney’s new collection District and Circle (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006). But I was struck by this statement:
Heaney will make a poem, as Frost and Hardy could, from something seen out of the corner of his eye…
Would that I could do the same.
Link from Silliman.
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2 Comments
1. Helen Losse replies at 21st June 2006, 2:50 pm :
I was struck by the impression that Logan didn’t seem to like anything he reviewed.
2. sherry replies at 22nd June 2006, 9:38 am :
I think that is somehow Logan’s schtick, Helen, not to like anyting — or at least not to praise anything unreservedly. I think it is presented as a balance to the supposed current practice of treating the review as a form of extended cover blurb. But it is difficult to dismiss poets like Heaney and Louise Glück (which is as far as I’ve read so far).
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