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

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

Stendhal is exhausting and bracing because his energy is relentless and directed relentlessly to one end: the refusal of … More

Here is the second part of the Zola post; undoubtedly shorter, as the fire of fresh reading has sputtered. But … More

In the spirit of a reading journal, here’s the first of a two-part attempt to say something coherent about Zola’s … More