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Tag: decorum

250. (Jean Racine)

I write as a novice, an initiate into Racine’s imaginative world, and I enter with just enough French to feel … More

decorum, English Literature, French literature, Racine, Shakespeare

241. (Davie, Auerbach, Arnold)

A friend of mine pointed out that semi-recent posts on decorum are a bit of a muddle and that I … More

decorum, Donald Davie, Erich Auerbach, Matthew Arnold, Platonism

232. (John Berryman)

Although it would be wrong to read John Berryman’s Dream Songs as a poem about the madness of a nation, … More

American Literature, American poetry, decorum, Dream Songs, John Berryman

227. (Alfred Lord Tennyson)

The Victorians, who were much taken with “progress,” were also, unsurprisingly, devoted to imagining its opposite: being left behind. In … More

decorum, Poetry, Tennyson, Victorian Poetry

224. (Emily Dickinson)

In this third and last in a series of posts on Emily Dickinson and decorum, I’ll try to bring decorum … More

American Literature, American poetry, decorum, Emily Dickinson, Poetry

223. (Emily Dickinson)

To begin with recapitulation and self-remonstration: poetry must, in F.H. Bradley’s persuasive formulation, get within the judgment the condition of … More

American Literature, American poetry, decorum, Donald Davie, Emily Dickinson, Poetry

222. (Emily Dickinson)

This post is the second of a series of evolving sketches about “decorum” in poetry. This is the messiest of … More

American Literature, American poetry, decorum, Emily Dickinson, high style, John Berryman, Poetry

221. (John Keats)

This post is the first in a series of evolving sketches on “decorum” in poetry; it leads into the next … More

decorum, Donald Davie, John Keats, Poetry, Romanticism

103. (Anthony Hecht)

They are almost “conversation” poems, but they offer too many explanations, the sorts of explanations of who the speaker is, … More

American poetry, Anthony Hecht, decorum, Poetry, rhetoric, Shakespeare
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