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Title: This Derivative Book is Less than Groundbreaking
Review: Anyone who has read the scholarship on these poets knows that there is really nothing original here. Either Kirsch has not done his homework, or, more likely, he has assimilated much of the relevant schoalrship without acknowedging it in this sparsely documented book. I was excited about this book because I thought it would be a good introduction to some good poets for the general reader. It may well be I'm not the audience for this book, but I noticed that most of the insights had been expressed before by others and more convincingly. This is middle-of-the-road, indeed middling, literary journalism. Kirsch's claims are modest, but he is not--he reinvents the wheel and passes it off as his own singular wisdom at his best and as the wisdom of the ages at his worst.
