How stupidly, carelessly I misread and misheard “Directive,” failing first to read it for what it was saying, and second … More
Author: oboynton
288. (Paul Tillich)
Paul Tillich draws together the challenge of hermeneutics—and hermeneutics as criticism knows it especially—with the insights of absolute idealism. That … More
287. (anonymous)
Summer is icumin in– Lhude sing, cuccu! Groweth sed and bloweth med [blows mead] And springth the wude nu. … More
286. (Edward Thomas)
Literature: manifestation and harmonizing of selfhood in the field of language, by means of the judgment orienting by cardinal … More
285. (Emily Dickinson)
She is metaphysical in that her poetry seeks to resolve, and is a novel means for resolving, a fundamental tension … More
284. (Andrew Marvell)
If we take Andrew Marvell’s Damon the Mower as an avatar for the poet himself, there is something peculiar in … More
283. (Sebastian Rödl)
In the following post, I try to build off of Sebastian Rödl’s reading of Kant to make sense of the … More
282. (W.B. Yeats)
I’d been intending to write up some thoughts on Yeats before the LRB review of Geoffrey Hill’s last book appeared, … More
281. (Geoffrey Hill)
In his review of Hills final, post-humous The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin, Seamus Perry provides a lengthy explication … More
280. (Henry Vaughan)
Before Henry Vaughan experienced, around 1648, a sharp conversion to profound faith, he experienced a conversion to place, a return … More
