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

A source of strength for William Blake’s sensitivity towards freedom, and all that it can mean and be, is a … More

The sublime is central to Shelley, and Shelley’s relationship to the sublime makes him central to modern poetry, as no … More

Some Notes on Chekhov: –The doubleness of the short story as he writes it: amazement at the vista of a … More

There is the occasion and there is the utterance; there is the condition and there is the judgment; there is … More

Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a remarkable work of one of the few (only?) … More

William Empson thought Tennyson’s “Flower in the crannied wall” an example of a poem whose supreme simplicity must nonetheless weld … More

Yvor Winters, who was as intense in his conviction of Dickinson’s greatness as any could be, thought “There’s a certain … More