IT may be still an open question for the critics whether thought should be considered as lying within the scope of poetic art, or should be rigorously excluded from its productions ; but in the mean ...
Strolling around Disneyland this summer, re-acquainting myself with Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh, Mister Toad, Simba, and so on, the following reflection occurred to me: that these strange imagined ...
One of two recordings of an interview with the poet Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972). He speaks about intention of prose versus poetry, and use of contemporary images in poetry. One of four recordings ...
THE WORLD’S BODY—John Crowe Ransom—Scribner ($2.75). There is no primer of modern poetry. Readers who are intimidated by its obscurity soon find that most prose explanations tend to become almost as ...
Many a critic, determined to speak with clarity and certitude upon the dauntingly ambiguous subject of modern poetry in English—or upon modernism in general, for that matter—has found himself invoking ...
Keeley, a 1949 alumnus, joined Princeton’s faculty in 1954 and transferred to emeritus status in 1994. He taught English, creative writing, comparative literature and translation at Princeton for 40 ...
We devote today to poetry; a small sample of contemporary Guyanese poems along with one of the classics of modern English poetry by one of the established and acclaimed writers. It is included as an ...