Second Life
James Longenbach, "Second Life" from Draft of a Letter. Copyright © 2007 by James Longenbach. Reprinted by permission of The University of Chicago Press.
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Poet James Longenbach
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
Subjects Living, The Mind, Love, Classic Love, Arts & Sciences, Music, Poetry & Poets
Poetic Terms Allusion
Biography
A poet as well as an influential literary critic and a professor of English at the University of Rochester, James Longenbach writes primarily on modernist and contemporary poetry. He is the author of the critical works Stone Cottage: Pound, Yeats, and Modernism (1988), Wallace Stevens: The Plain Sense of Things (1991), Modern Poetry After Modernism (1997), The Resistance to Poetry (2004), and The Art of the Poetic Line . . .
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SUBJECT Living, The Mind, Love, Classic Love, Arts & Sciences, Music, Poetry & Poets
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
Poetic Terms Allusion
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