Among the reasons Thomson’s “The City of Dreadful Night” can be enjoyed is that it is a second-rate poem that … More
Tag: Dante
117. (Lord Byron)
“If there is a critique of the Enlightenment to be made, it is not that the philosophes believed in human nature, … More
66. (Dante Alighieri)
No poem rivals Dante’s Commedia in providing so many opportunities, so many temptations, for a poet (both as the poet recollecting and … More
61. (Eudora Welty)
Eudora Welty is as inaccessible a writer of short fiction as any. Like Hawthorne, she writes short stories that sit … More
8. (Robert Browning)
Bagehot, a man in the know, confides to his readership: “One of his greatest admirers once owned to us that … More
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