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Posted March 24, 2008.
There is little proof that Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins, contemporaries who led single and relatively reclusive lives writing poetry on opposite sides of the Atlantic, met and wedded and produced children. In fact, the only proof I’ve found to support this absurd claim is the poetry … [Read More...]
May 5, 2012 Leave a Comment
On Orality and intimacy. Woolf, too: What has praise and fame to do with poetry? What has seven editions (the book had already gone into no less) got to do with the value of it? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? Ong could have used that quote as an epigraph to … [Read more]
January 27, 2012 Leave a Comment
On Santorum vs. Paul: Lincoln vs. Douglas? In last night's Jacksonville debate, Santorum again went out of his way to espouse natural law principles. Asked how his faith might influence him as president, he immediately veered from the question to make the case for reading the Declaration of … [Read more]
October 9, 2011 2 Comments
On Voir Dire (and critic George Steiner's aversion to critics). Here's artist and theorist Wassily Kandinsky on art historians: Art historians . . . write books full of praise and deep sentiments -- about an art that yesterday was regarded as senseless. By means of these books, they remove the … [Read more]
August 13, 2011 6 Comments
On Texas’s successive secessions. A potential secessionist is now a potential president. James Buchanan is considered one of our worst presidents in large part because he didn’t think he could resist secession. But even Buchanan never suggested secession as an option, as Mr. Perry has. The … [Read more]
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