Tag: W. H. Auden

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| May 7, 2018

Auden and Poggioli

This lovely remembrance by Sylvia Poggioli of her father, the literary scholar Renato Poggioli, features a letter to...

| December 23, 2016

hierophanies

“As things developed, she [Oedipa Maas] was to have all manner of revelations,” we are told in the first chapter of...

| June 7, 2016

the Roman world and ours

So why am I reading about — I’m gonna coin a phrase here — the decline and fall of the Roman Empire? It started...

| September 14, 2013

Franz und Kraus

Most of what I have to say about Jonathan Franzen’s ridiculous essay in the Guardian is communicated by the image...

| August 12, 2010

poetry on page and screen

Here’s a really thoughtful post by Siobhan Phillips on the highly fraught relationship between e-readers and verse....