Auden and Poggioli
This lovely remembrance by Sylvia Poggioli of her father, the literary scholar Renato Poggioli, features a letter to...
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This lovely remembrance by Sylvia Poggioli of her father, the literary scholar Renato Poggioli, features a letter to...
I’ve just been teaching Horace’s Epistles, and it strikes me that Horace ought to be the man of our...
So wrote R. P. Blackmur, an eminent poet and critic from Princeton University, writing in the Sewanee Review in 1945....
Ah, the poetry MOOCs are coming — the exciting world of online education is spreading beyond the STEM disciplines and...
In the first section of his great elegy for William Butler Yeats, W. H. Auden shows us a world in which the great poet...
A long quotation here, from John Gray’s review of a new book by Brian Christian: So, what human abilities did...
I want to agree with part of a recent post by Nick Carr and disagree with another part. Here’s the part I agree with:...
Here’s a really thoughtful post by Siobhan Phillips on the highly fraught relationship between e-readers and verse....
See those four numbers? Those are the four beats. Four stresses, as we say in the meter business. Tetrameter. Four....
About ninety-five years ago, the American poet Erza Pound, then living in London, received the manuscript of an essay...