339. (John Dryden)

Dryden honored music in his verse, and his verse in general repeatedly challenges us to better tune our ears to … More

338. (Algernon Charles Swinburne)

The first chorus of Swinburne’s Atalanta in Calydon is by widely accepted as one of his finest achievements—susceptible, as all … More

John Donne’s “The Sun Rising” exemplifies Donne’s art because the poem issues from Donne’s exertion to shift the truth of … More

O blithe New-comer! I have heard,I hear thee and rejoice.O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,Or but a wandering Voice? … More

Here is David Ferry’s translation of Horace, Ode III.4: Come down from heaven, Calliope, and play Upon the flute a … More

Philosophy yearns to reveal time in a form that is understandable and universal, its essence scraped away, seized as it … More

The best critics are the best readers; what they see in a text is the judgment at work and at … More

The strange and wondrous movement of Wordsworth’s blank verse can be felt with special force in a poem that is … More

Jonson’s “To Penshurst” is an extraordinary achievement of technique: a poem that feels relaxed, and at ease, and yet is … More

Though he does so only indirectly, Coleridge raises the question of whether literature can be considered a form of knowledge? … More