... potential of Kokes s pioneering theoretical explications and practical appli- cations deserves to be emphasized and appreciated. Bohumil For t Masaryk University DOI 10.1215/03335372-7739155 DonBialostosky, How to Play a Poem. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. xvii1 235 pp. Don Bialostosky...

... and practical appli- cations deserves to be emphasized and appreciated. Bohumil For t Masaryk University DOI 10.1215/03335372-7739155 DonBialostosky, How to Play a Poem. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. xvii1 235 pp. Don Bialostosky has long been admired as a writer of dense texts aimed...

...Katherine Thorsteinson peaks of John Milton s Lycidas and the jagged rocks of Charles Bernstein s wittily deranged experiments. Bialostosky s recurrent references to Cleanth Brooks sThe Well-Wrought Urn (1947) ask us to consider his own text as a riposte to that seminal study inNewCritical method...

... Criticism and Theory , edited by David Lodge, 167 -71 (New York and London: Longman). Baym, Nina 1977 “God, Father and Lover in Dickinson's Poetry,” in Puritan Influences in American Literature , edited by Emory Elliott, 193 -209 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press). Bialostosky, Don H. 1989...