There’s much agreement that he speaks to and of a modern malaise like no other poet. He seems, at times, … More
Tag: Baudelaire
274. (Charles Baudelaire)
All poetry is nature poetry—imagining what it is in the nature of things to do and become; nature is the … More
272. (Charles Baudelaire)
Even if Baudelaire’s lyrics are accepted as a symptom of modernity (but what great poetry written in the 19th century … More
270. (Charles Baudelaire)
The gray trances and suspended animation of Swinburne’s poetry owes more to Baudelaire than the chintzier trappings of forbidden love, … More
149. (Robert Lowell)
“Self-accusation,” writes Geoffrey Hill, “is the life-blood of Romanticism.” For a long time, I thought Lowell a late-Romantic, working back, … More
99. (William Empson)
Whatever else its relationship to genre, wit is a particular way of coping with the world’s fragility, its tendency to … More
89. (Andrew Marvell)
When T.S. Eliot, in his essay on Andrew Marvell, offered his incomparably confusing characterization of “wit,” what was he onto? … More
54. (Alexander Pope)
Among the etchings on display at the MFA’s recent Goya exhibit, one from the series of Caprichos depicts an old woman, sat … 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