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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“not to waver with the wavering hours”
I’ve just been teaching Horace’s Epistles, and it strikes me that Horace ought to be the man of our...
the devil’s bargain: part 1
So wrote R. P. Blackmur, an eminent poet and critic from Princeton University, writing in the Sewanee Review in 1945....
investigating the poetry MOOC
Ah, the poetry MOOCs are coming — the exciting world of online education is spreading beyond the STEM disciplines and...
In Memoriam Seamus Heaney
In the first section of his great elegy for William Butler Yeats, W. H. Auden shows us a world in which the great poet...
meaning and responsibility
A long quotation here, from John Gray’s review of a new book by Brian Christian: So, what human abilities did...
looking up the allusions
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:...
poetry on page and screen
Here’s a really thoughtful post by Siobhan Phillips on the highly fraught relationship between e-readers and verse....
Tetris and tetrameter
See those four numbers? Those are the four beats. Four stresses, as we say in the meter business. Tetrameter. Four....
Pound and Fenollosa
About ninety-five years ago, the American poet Erza Pound, then living in London, received the manuscript of an essay...