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"Fine Incisions" is a collection of twenty-four gracious, intelligent and occasionally fractious essays, wide-ranging in their interests and rigorous in their analyses. Ormsby's reverence for language is luminously clear as he examines his international travels, the work of James Merrill, the state of North American literary criticism and more in a series of essays as vivacious as they are provocative.
Contents
PrefaceShadow Language: Foreign Accents in English Poetry Passionate Syntax (William Butler Yeats) The King of Never-To-Be (Walter De la Mare) Butterfly on a Wheel (Bob Dylan) Gilded Totems (James Merrill) Mosquitoes in Eden (Richard Outram) Ultimate Distillations (Daryl Hine) Ancient Chills (Elizabeth Bishop) An Austere Opulence (Geoffrey Hill) Fine Incisions: Reflections on Reviewing Delousing the Soul (J.-K. Huysmans) The House in his Mind (William Maxwell) Secret Lightning-Flashes (Leo Tolstoy) The View from a Falling House (Katherine Anne Porter) The Disaster Parade (Richard Yates) Waiting for the Grammarians (C. P. Cavafy) Ambitious Diminutives (La Fontaine) Prague of a Hundred Towers Two Letters from Prague: Nostalgia for Bad Times (1999) Waiting for the Golden Pig (2004) Fabulous Cities In Search of al-Majati The Happiest Man in Morocco The Born Schoolmaster (S. D. Goitein)