357. (T.S. Eliot)

Approached from the direction of monumentality, The Waste Land calls for the literary historian: the poem is a post-Romantic attempt … More

355. (Robert Lowell)

“My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow” has become one of my favorite poems by Robert Lowell and one that … More

Aristotle, frustrating some, claims that “a life of virtue is a life of flourishing.” The statement can be variously … More

Paule Marshall’s debut novel, Brown Girl, Brownstones is one of the best American novels of the mid-twentieth century. When Marshall … More

The early Yeats, the earliest aesthete, late pre-Raphaelite Yeats, the world is presented as a tumult of passion, fading into … More

William Empson on the foundation of humanism: “the world is good enough for me; let me be good enough for … More

Robert Lowell is a genius of scale, disproportion, and incongruity; from the earliest poetry, the most intensely Catholic, he developed … More

Kafka’s The Trial takes as its subject matter the disenchantment of turn-of-the-century bourgeois modernity; but it presents, in what it … More

On first reading the collection, I found Yves Bonnefoy’s The Beginning and End of Snow to be one of the … More

Near the end of The Recognitions we are told that Stanley dedicates his composition to the souls of three women. … More