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A View of Particulars: McGann’s Pictures of Great Detail

I’ll start with a particular: the first line of Robert Hass’s poem, “Meditation at Lagunitas,” from his 1979 volume, Praise. “All the new thinking is about loss.” Before specifying “the new thinking,” the narrator notes its resemblance to “all the old thinking” (line 2). That abstraction does get specified, and then, exemplified, with a show of playful pedantry about the status of examples as particulars. (By playful pedantry, I mean the throwaway interjection, “for example,” in a statement about examples on line 3.) The first example of the “old thinking” (that is, “The idea . . . that each particular erases / the clarity of a general idea,” on lines 3–4) takes a form that mirrors the statement’s content.