131. (Ezra Pound)

Friday morning, stuck in Pound’s forty-seventh canto, a student (precocious, ambitious reader) broke me free from the jam(b) I was in: … More

113. (Ezra Pound)

Pound, whose faith in poetry as a force to make something happen was constant and remains invigorating, began his career … More

Of Ezra Pound’s poem “The Return,” Donald Davie remarks how “surprising” it is that “a poet who had scored his … More

Although I assume he has a host of them, I have not met a devoted admirer of Thom Gunn’s poetry. … More

Apt that an Italian would assist with placing Browning plain before the eyes. Franco Moretti (once again), but this time … More

V.S. Pritchett, introducing his edition of the Oxford Book of Short Stories, admits that he admires D.H. Lawrence most as a … More