Ross Wilson is Lecturer in Literature at the School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia.

'To read a critic this sensitive to the language of another sensitive language-user is to be made aware of the texture of phrases that otherwise risk being overlooked.' The Times Literary Supplement

• Introduction; 1. Poetry and the theory of life; 2. Living losing life; 3. Mere wheels of work; 4. Happier forms; 5. Sounds of air; 6. Poetry and the life of theory; Coda.

Ross Wilson is Lecturer in Literature at the School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia.

'To read a critic this sensitive to the language of another sensitive language-user is to be made aware of the texture of phrases that otherwise risk being overlooked.' The Times Literary Supplement

• Introduction; 1. Poetry and the theory of life; 2. Living losing life; 3. Mere wheels of work; 4. Happier forms; 5. Sounds of air; 6. Poetry and the life of theory; Coda.

Ross Wilson is Lecturer in Literature at the School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia.

'To read a critic this sensitive to the language of another sensitive language-user is to be made aware of the texture of phrases that otherwise risk being overlooked.' The Times Literary Supplement

• Introduction; 1. Poetry and the theory of life; 2. Living losing life; 3. Mere wheels of work; 4. Happier forms; 5. Sounds of air; 6. Poetry and the life of theory; Coda.