282. (W.B. Yeats)

I’d been intending to write up some thoughts on Yeats before the LRB review of Geoffrey Hill’s last book appeared, … More

95. (Elizabeth Bishop)

The poems are about the failure to communicate or translate an esoteric, charged experience of the commonplace. Where poets who … More

She shares with Eugenio Montale a novel sense of what epiphany a poem can or should seek or record. She only … More

After reading Tennyson’s “Locksley Hall,” a friend half-recalled Paul Fussell’s opinion that verse in a trochaic meter could never be … More