The Timelessness/Timeliness Of Shelley’s “Ozymandias”
On T. S. Eliot’s Prufrock
Recluse No Longer: A Definitive Collection Of Emily Dickinson’s Letters Is Published
“The larger consequence of these efforts is to show, once and for all, that Dickinson was never isolated from the world, but rather sensitively engaged with local and national events. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a distinguished family with a wide social circle, she was an active member of her community, comfortable initiating correspondence with […]
On The Centenary Of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “Poems”
The strangeness of Hopkins’s formal innovations, slipping off the bonds of iambic convention, and of his fragile and febrile sensibility, came not piecemeal but all at once, fully developed, in the posthumous 1918 edition of the poems.”
The Poetry Of Distraction [Longread]
The first poet he quoted, the one he’d memorized as a child and who seemed to him to epitomize the artist who spoke for the value of concentration, was Wordsworth. “‘The World Is Too Much with Us,’ may, for all I know, have been my introduction to the subject of distraction.”