287. (anonymous)

Summer is icumin in– Lhude sing, cuccu! Groweth sed and bloweth med [blows mead] And springth the wude nu. … 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

It’s one thing to say, as a general principle of literary art, that a work must get within its judgments … More

There’s much agreement that he speaks to and of a modern malaise like no other poet. He seems, at times, … More

All poetry is nature poetry—imagining what it is in the nature of things to do and become; nature is the … More

Even if Baudelaire’s lyrics are accepted as a symptom of modernity (but what great poetry written in the 19th century … More

Her poems follow the logic of reverie, but reverie of the utmost sobriety, disciplined by attentiveness, and, what is most … More

The gray trances and suspended animation of Swinburne’s poetry owes more to Baudelaire than the chintzier trappings of forbidden love, … More

Feeling is notoriously difficult to discuss in a work of literature (almost as difficult as “tone”) but it helps to … More

Postscript: The recognition of truth as truth, of something as true, is a particular species of judgment that is often … More