All poetry is nature poetry—imagining what it is in the nature of things to do and become; nature is the … More
Tag: Modernity
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
183. (J.R.R. Tolkien)
I don’t think it’s much use denying that Tolkien’s mythology is in some ways racist: growing from Anglo-Saxon ideologies of … More
Critical Provisions 