287. (anonymous)

Summer is icumin in– Lhude sing, cuccu! Groweth sed and bloweth med [blows mead] And springth the wude nu. … More

286. (Edward Thomas)

Literature: manifestation and harmonizing of selfhood in the field of language, by means of the judgment orienting by cardinal … More

If we take Andrew Marvell’s Damon the Mower as an avatar for the poet himself, there is something peculiar in … More

Before Henry Vaughan experienced, around 1648, a sharp conversion to profound faith, he experienced a conversion to place, a return … More

It’s one thing to say, as a general principle of literary art, that a work must get within its judgments … More

All poetry is nature poetry—imagining what it is in the nature of things to do and become; nature is the … More

Among the most beautiful and anthologized of Austin Clarke’s poems is “Martha Blake”: . Before the day is everywhere … More

Even if Baudelaire’s lyrics are accepted as a symptom of modernity (but what great poetry written in the 19th century … More

The gray trances and suspended animation of Swinburne’s poetry owes more to Baudelaire than the chintzier trappings of forbidden love, … More

Postscript: The recognition of truth as truth, of something as true, is a particular species of judgment that is often … More