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Acknowledgments First, my thanks go to the poets themselves: to James McMichael, for all his work; to Robert Pinsky, for meeting with me in Lake Forest and in South Bend; to Robert Hass, for talking with me in Chicago and for his comments on the manuscript; to John Peck, for his correspondence and his patience; to John Matthias, for his generosity and for his feedback along the way; and to the late Yvor Winters, for leaving his mark on all of his students. Also to Michael Anania of the University of Illinois–Chicago, who read much of the manuscript and made many important suggestions ; to Alan Golding of the University of Louisville, for his attention to the papers I gave at the Twentieth Century Literature Conferences over the years; to David Kellogg of Northeastern University, for providing a paradigm and a sympathetic ear; to Charles Altieri, for finding my early work on Pinsky irritating and telling me why; to Piotr Gwiazda of the University of Maryland , for disagreeing with Altieri; and to Keith Tuma of Miami University of Ohio, the last honest man in literary criticism. I would also like to thank the contributors to Word Play Place: Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias, especially Romana Huk of the University of Notre Dame and Vincent Sherry of Washington University , without whom at least one chapter of this book would not have been possible. I would be remiss in not thanking the formidable Joe Francis Doerr, Michel Delville, and Christine Pagnoulle of the University vii of Liège, Belgium; Lars-Håkan Svensson of the University of Lund, Sweden; David Sanders of Ohio University Press; Burt Kimmelman of New Jersey Institute of Technology, the editors of Mantis, the Chicago Review, and the Notre Dame Review, and Don Bogen at Cincinnati Review ; the staff of the Modernist Studies Association; the English Department at the University of Copenhagen; the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of London; and all the editors and conference organizers who provided support for this project as it developed. I would be remiss, too, in not citing Philip Clover of Malmö University and Stefan Hollander of Finnmark University College for keeping me sane, if not always sober, during a year in Scandinavia. Let me also thank Ron Ellingson of Chicago’s much-missed Aspidistra Bookshop, a graduate school in its own right. Closer to home, I would like to thank Lake Forest College for supporting me in this project in a number of ways, not the least being a sabbatical and a year’s leave. At Lake Forest, let me particularly thank Dan LeMahieu for providing a model of intellectual integrity. Thanks also to Caleb Gordon, Doug Light, and Ben Goluboff for knowing how to take my mind off the book, and to Derek Lambert for understanding the meaning of gemeinschaft. Also Dave Park, sort of. Still closer to home, let me thank Valerie, for everything, always. This book is for her, and for Lila. viii | Acknowledgments ...