415. (John Keats)

I wasn’t reading Kierkegaard concurrently to Keats but had the impulse to return to Keats after having finished The Concept…

414. (Søren Kierkegaard)

According to Kierkegaard in The Concept of Anxiety, to live only in time is to live in sin; to live…

This is the first in what will be a multi-part explication of Kierkegaard’s The Concept of Anxiety. Kierkegaard writes The…

“First Death in Nova Scotia” is a perfect poem: In the cold, cold parlormy mother laid out Arthurbeneath the chromographs:Edward,…

Someone wants something—and they think about what it is to want something, and literature happens. Lay your sleeping head, my…

Auden’s poems are most interesting to me when one of two things happen: they embody, in their phrasing, the vulnerability…

Years ago when a friend and I sat and foolishly debated whether Dryden was as great a poet as…

Critics can be expected to have a nearly unerring sense for what is extraordinary and a strong sense for what…

Jim Powell, in the final section of Substrate, itself titled “Substrate,” presents us with moments of apprehending persons from…

T.S. Eliot’s criticism of Marlowe is essential: Dido appears to be a hurried play, perhaps done to order with the…