He seems to be a man after my own heart--though somewhat of an absolutist. I haven't read a lot of either his poetry or criticism. Langdon Hammer of The American Scholar (and Yale) casts Kirsch in the New York Times Book Review as prejudiced against non-formal, non-"Modern" poetry. His new book of criticism,
The Modern Element, is hit for only dealing with five women, of which only A. E. Stallings is praised. Hammer puts him in the tradition of Eliot as a poet/critic--Kirsch also has a new book of poetry called Invasions. But
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