THE divorce between poetry and the drama is acknowledged to be most unfortunate for both parties to the matrimonial contract; and those of us who have a warm regard for either of them cannot help ...
It is a customary act of respect that the lecturer on a foundation should begin by saying something about the man in whose name the lectureship was founded. The fact that between Theodore Spencer and ...
The prose dialogue we find to be uniformly good; we feel its integrity; Mr. Hardy here employs a medium of which he is a master. To read a passage made up in part of this prose and in part of that ...
There are many reasons to celebrate this year’s centenary of Elizabeth Bishop’s birth, not least of which is the enduring power of her writing and that she led by and large a productive and happy life ...
is a book to delve into again and again and be reminded and surprised by the wonderful writing of multi-award winning poet Elizabeth Bishop, who was Poet Laureate of the United States (1949 to 1950), ...
Emily Dickinson didn’t need this. Arguably our country’s greatest poet-I would take her side against Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens by a hair or two-Dickinson didn’t need William H. Shurr, a ...