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William Logan has been called both the "preeminent poet-critic of his generation" and the "most hated man in American poetry." For more than a quarter century, in the keen-witted and bare-knuckled reviews that have graced the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement (London), and other journals, William Logan has delivered razor-sharp assessments of poets present and past. Logan, whom James Wolcott of Vanity Fair has praised as being "the best poetry critic in America," vividly assays the most memorable and most damning features of a poet's work. While his occasionally harsh judgments have raised some eyebrows and caused their share of controversy (a number of poets have offered to do him bodily harm), his readings offer the fresh and provocative perspectives of a passionate and uncompromising critic, unafraid to separate the tin from the gold.

The longer essays in The Undiscovered Country explore a variety of poets who have shaped and shadowed contemporary verse, measuring the critical and textual traditions of Shakespeare's sonnets, Whitman's use of the American vernacular, the mystery of Marianne Moore, and Milton's invention of personality, as well as offering a thorough reconsideration of Robert Lowell and a groundbreaking analysis of Sylvia Plath's relationship to her father.

Logan's unsparing "verse chronicles" present a survey of the successes and failures of contemporary verse. Neither a poet's tepid use of language nor lackadaisical ideas nor indulgence in grotesque sentimentality escapes this critic's eye. While railing against the blandness of much of today's poetry (and the critics who trumpet mediocre work), Logan also celebrates Paul Muldoon's high comedy, Anne Carson's quirky originality, Seamus Heaney's backward glances, Czeslaw Milosz's indictment of Polish poetry, and much more.

William Logan is author of five works of criticism, including Our Savage Art:Poetry and the Civil Tongue. He has received the inaugural Randall Jarrell Award in Poetry Criticism from the Poetry Foundation and the Corrington Medal for Literary Excellence, as well as numerous awards for his poetry. He is Alumni/ae Professor of English at the University of Florida.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Poetry in the Age of Tin
Prisoner, Fancy-Man, Rowdy, Lawyer, Physician, Priest: Whitman's Brags
Verse Chronicle: Sins and Sensibility
Verse Chronicle: Vanity Fair
"You Must Not Take it So Hard, Madame"
The Mystery of Marianne Moore
Verse Chronicle: No Mercy
Verse Chronicle: The Way of All Flesh
The Extremity of the Flesh
Later Auden
The Triumph of Geoffrey Hill
Verse Chronicle: Author! Author!
Verse Chronicle: Folk Tales
Houseman's Ghosts
Milton in the Modern: The Invention of Personality
Verse Chronicle: All Over the Map
Verse Chronicle: Falls the Shadow
Poetry and the Age: An Introduction
The World Out-Herods Herod
Lowell's Bubble: A Postscript
Verse Chronicle: The Real Language of Men
Verse Chronicle: Satanic Mills
Auden's Shakespeare
Berryman's Shakespeare
The Sins of the Sonnets
Permissions
Books Under Review
Index of Authors Reviewed
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