Some books I have enjoyed, whose authors engage in the kind of close reading I like to encounter…
Winifred Nowottny, The Language Poets Use, University of London, 1962
Marie Borroff, Language and the Poet: Verbal Artistry in Frost, Stevens, and Moore, University of Chicago, 1979
Mark Ford, A Driftwood Altar: Essays and Reviews, The Waywiser Press, London, 2005.
Then there is Empson – and of course Cleanth Brooks (The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry, 1942).
Have fun!
Clive Watkins
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