“Waiting Both” (Thomas Hardy)
A star looks down at me, And says: "Here I and you Stand, each in our degree: What do you mean to do,–– Mean to do?"
View ArticleMaking Statements About “The wind blew words…” (Thomas Hardy)
Making Statements About "The wind blew words..." (Thomas Hardy)
View Article“I set so much on this Assumption. Now it’s failed.”
Delay, well, travellers must expect Delay. For how long? No one seems to know.
View Article“No poet ever invented such a scheme of curse….” (John Jay Chapman)
"No poet ever invented such a scheme of curse, so all-involving, so remotely rising in an obscure past and holding an entire nation in its mysterious bondage—a scheme based on natural law, led forward...
View Article“What better proof could we have of how thoroughly the plagiarists have...
"I hate sonnets because they are the most literary of all the forms of verse—even our best English poets are on their best literary behavior in the sonnet—their best foreign manner gloved and scented...."
View Article“Shakespeare mingles everything, runs line into line, embarrasses sentences...
"Shakespeare mingles everything, runs line into line, embarrasses sentences and metaphors; before one idea has burst its shell, another is hatched and clamorous for disclosure."
View Article“I’m always interested, you know, when I have three or four stanzas, in the...
I’m always interested, you know, when I have three or four stanzas, in the way I lay the sentences in them. I’d hate to have the sentences all lie the same in the stanzas."--Robert Frost
View ArticleWe cannot shake off the lethargy now at noonday. Sleep lingers all our...
We cannot shake off the lethargy now at noonday. Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree. All things swim and glitter.
View Article“Such was that happy Garden-state, while Man there walk’d without a mate…”
"Such was that happy Garden-state, while Man there walk'd without a mate..."
View Article“There is no question that the power to throw your sitter into a receptive...
“There is no question that the power to throw your sitter into a receptive mood by a pass or two which shall give you his virgin attention is necessary to any artist."
View ArticleDante and the Henchman; or, the profession of English
Dante and the Henchman; or, the profession of English
View Article“I did not know until this year that Keats spoke with a cockney accent”:...
"I did not know until this year that Keats spoke with a cockney accent": Richard Rodriguez's Prose
View ArticleSpoiled Actresses, Robert Frost, “Engaging Cowardice,” and Battle-Cries
Spoiled Actresses, Robert Frost, "Engaging Cowardice," and Battle-Cries
View ArticleHow Literary Criticism Arises
From an interview Noam Chomsky lately gave to The Atlantic (the interviewer is Yarden Katz): If you ask neuroscientists why understanding the brain is so difficult, they give you very intellectually...
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