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Pound, Frost, Moore, and poetic precision : science in modernist American poetry / Barry Ahearn

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Ahearn, Barry
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[Cham] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
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©2020
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Contents
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 To Be Precise -- 1 In the Gloom -- 2 From the Lighthouse -- 3 The Light of Science -- 4 Babbage and Tennyson -- 5 Quantification -- 6 A Brief History of "Precision" -- Chapter 3 Ezra Pound and Error -- 1 The Dance Floor and the Laboratory -- 2 Agassiz and Objectivity -- 3 Great Men -- 4 "Wrong from the Start-" (P, 185) -- 5 Quo Vadis? -- 6 The Unerring Body -- 7 Doubt -- 8 The Imprecise Language of the Gods -- 9 Errata -- 10 Confucius -- 11 Serendipity and Chapter 4 Robert Frost and "Something" -- 1 Something -- 2 A Somewhat Phenomenological Approach to "Something" -- 3 "Something" and Science -- 4 "Something" and Others -- 5 "Something" and Narrative -- 6 Articulating Something -- Chapter 5 Marianne Moore and Ac-/cident -- 1 Precision à la Moore -- 2 The Conservation of Mystery -- 3 Estimation -- 4 Footprints of the Creator -- 5 The Precise Paradoxes of "Marriage" -- 6 Substance, Accident, Paradox -- Chapter 6 Afterword -- Works Cited -- Index
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9783030365448 (electronic bk.)
3030365441 (electronic bk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Paterno Family Librarian Endowment in Literature
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