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

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

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

I sometimes wish every long poem could exasperate like Paradise Lost or The Aeneid, since the exasperation of either is … More

How to explain the presence of Baudelaire as a defining presence for modernist poetry in English? He is felt, directly … More

The first time we encounter the parenthetical “(Men sell not such in any town),” we might want to hear the … More

In this series of posts, I proposed to myself to read the best short narrative poems from the nineteenth century. … More

“He was a poet of misconceptions (the title of one of his poems), of failures, of abortive lives and loves, … More

Keats’ “The Eve of St Agnes” places an unusual strain upon Keats’ distinct genius, while also offering it an opportunity … More

“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” though it would seem to belie, superbly confirms Coleridge’s critical principle: “nothing can permanently … More