There’s much agreement that he speaks to and of a modern malaise like no other poet. He seems, at times, … More
Tag: pastoral
199. (William Shakespeare)
As You Like It perplexes for many reasons, not least of which is a disproportionate structure, whose warps and excrescences … More
151. (William Empson)
Curiously, coming as late in the book as it does, the chapter on Bentley and Milton in Some Versions of Pastoral … More
90. (Andrew Marvell)
Yesterday’s post on Andrew Marvell perhaps flew too high in abstraction; the thought that literature might be classified by tolerance … More
19. (John Milton)
The wryly and slyly passionate William Empson in Some Versions of Pastoral, at the end of the chapter on Milton and … More
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