They are almost “conversation” poems, but they offer too many explanations, the sorts of explanations of who the speaker is, … More
Tag: Anthony Hecht
27. (Robert Herrick)
All of his women, imaginary or real, with their deliciously deliquescent clothes and delicately disordered laces, with their nipples and … More
17. (Charles Baudelaire)
Robert Lowell’s 1961 Imitations did more for the reputation of twentieth-century poets Mandelstam and Montale than it did for the … More
16. (Arthur Symons)
The George Eliot in me (there’s one in all of us) would turn over as a subject for a novel … More
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