What is poetry and what is poetry for? To ask the first question is to ask the second. To answer both questions in light of the western tradition stretching back to Homer, and against much modernist ...
Literary critic Foster (How to Read Literature Like a Professor) explicates the fundamentals of reading and understanding poetry in this accessible guide designed for the lay audience. He addresses ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Fr. Matthew Russell, S.J. (1834-1912) intended to found a devotional magazine with the name Catholic Ireland in 1873, but it ...
In “Upstream,” a book of essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver wrote: “Attention is the beginning of devotion.” I believe attention is not only the beginning of devotion but also of wisdom, ...
Poet, literary critic, Harvard professor and transgender activist Stephanie Burt GRD ’00 gave what she called an hourlong “elevator pitch” for her new book — “Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to ...
Because I use pop lyrics in my poems and review records for SPIN and elsewhere, people sometimes ask me whether I think of song lyrics as poetry. Looked at in certain ways, they obviously are; in ...
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