Xavier Kalck is Associate Professor at Paris-Sorbonne University, where he received his PhD in Objectivist poetics. He is the author of Muted Strings: Louis MacNeice’s The Burning Perch (2015). He also edited Anthony Barnett’s Miscanthus: Selected & New Poems (2005).

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• Preface – Acknowledgments – List of Abbreviations – Introduction: In the Land of Uz – Structures of Meaning – Rhythmic Obligations – That Common Wealth of Parlance – The Image-Statement – A Dream of Politics – A Realist Poetry – Germane Questions, German Concepts – Unethical Criticism – Simple and Primitive: History’s Children – Conclusion: To Heal the Diction – Index.

Xavier Kalck is Associate Professor at Paris-Sorbonne University, where he received his PhD in Objectivist poetics. He is the author of Muted Strings: Louis MacNeice’s The Burning Perch (2015). He also edited Anthony Barnett’s Miscanthus: Selected & New Poems (2005).

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• Preface – Acknowledgments – List of Abbreviations – Introduction: In the Land of Uz – Structures of Meaning – Rhythmic Obligations – That Common Wealth of Parlance – The Image-Statement – A Dream of Politics – A Realist Poetry – Germane Questions, German Concepts – Unethical Criticism – Simple and Primitive: History’s Children – Conclusion: To Heal the Diction – Index.

Xavier Kalck is Associate Professor at Paris-Sorbonne University, where he received his PhD in Objectivist poetics. He is the author of Muted Strings: Louis MacNeice’s The Burning Perch (2015). He also edited Anthony Barnett’s Miscanthus: Selected & New Poems (2005).

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• Preface – Acknowledgments – List of Abbreviations – Introduction: In the Land of Uz – Structures of Meaning – Rhythmic Obligations – That Common Wealth of Parlance – The Image-Statement – A Dream of Politics – A Realist Poetry – Germane Questions, German Concepts – Unethical Criticism – Simple and Primitive: History’s Children – Conclusion: To Heal the Diction – Index.