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Skeptical Music: Essays on Modern Poetry. By DAVID BROMWICH. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2001. xvii+256 pp. $16; 10.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-226-07561-3.
In the preface to this collection of his essays and reviews spanning twenty-two years, David Bromwich asks: 'But what does one read criticism for? Mainly, I think, quotations' (p. xiii). Citing a great quoter like Randall Jarrell, Bromwich emphasizes the line as the unit of modern poetry and, in his quoting of lines that 'have captivated the mind's ear', he is the equal of critics like Jarrell or David Kalstone. However, Adrienne Rich, an extensive quoter in her prose...
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