289. (Robert Frost)

How stupidly, carelessly I misread and misheard “Directive,” failing first to read it for what it was saying, and second … More

286. (Edward Thomas)

Literature: manifestation and harmonizing of selfhood in the field of language, by means of the judgment orienting by cardinal … More

I’d been intending to write up some thoughts on Yeats before the LRB review of Geoffrey Hill’s last book appeared, … More

George Kalogeris’ collection Guide to Greece is a marvelous collection of poems that reads like a novel—which is to say … More

Among the most beautiful and anthologized of Austin Clarke’s poems is “Martha Blake”: . Before the day is everywhere … More

“Not another man to outtalk Leopold Dice,” the first line in the Ishion Hutchinson poem, “The Night Autobiographies of Leopold … More

To make some attempt at getting at what Hardy’s poems grasp, I’ll look at one of the most famous later … More

A student of mine pointed out that “The Emperor of Ice Cream” endorses living in the moment. That, he thought, … More

The poetry of Samuel Menashe is illuminated by the thought that, even the smallest lyric poem, when successful, will … More

Although it would be wrong to read John Berryman’s Dream Songs as a poem about the madness of a nation, … More