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28 Dec 2011, 3:30 pm
Have you ever come across the book On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection, by the poet Susan Stewart? [read post]
25 Dec 2011, 6:34 am
Turned down when Harry Met Sally, Dead Poet's Society. [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 4:48 pm
So says poet and novelist Jay Parini, one of the respondents to the NYT questions "What is the best book you have ever received as a gift? [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 1:23 pm
There is a reason, whether it’s alcohol or thujone, that a lot of painters and poets thought absinthe was a legendary cocktail. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 9:08 am
A poet, a playwright, a Washington in a leather jacket and jeans, he was under surveillance by the secret police for 20 goddamn years. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 12:35 am
I find the the criticisms of naturopathy vastly more convincing than the defenses, but I haven’t blogged about the science of it — you’re looking at someone who took the “Physics for Poets” track at Stanford, writing essays about how the Pythagorean theorem made me feel. [read post]
17 Dec 2011, 5:05 am
But Felten shouldn’t have focused all of his ire on poets. [read post]
17 Dec 2011, 4:40 am
In July 1846 Poe picked a fight with the wrong guy, a minor poet and publisher. [read post]
17 Dec 2011, 4:40 am
In July 1846, Poe picked a fight with Thomas Dunn English, a minor poet and publisher, who Poe "profiled" in The Literati of New York. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 6:35 am
His friends from London would visit his retreat and for them he would take up again his role as poet. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 6:35 am
His friends from London would visit his retreat and for them he would take up again his role as poet. [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 11:00 pm
"...I cannot think of a better book to put into the hands of any young would-be poet, as an inspirational guide to poetry and to surviving as a poet in a hostile world. [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 10:00 pm
“…I cannot think of a better book to put into the hands of any young would-be poet, as an inspirational guide to poetry and to surviving as a poet in a hostile world.” Harry Fainlight, The Times Available from Amazon.co.uk Share this article: [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 7:04 am
But to Plaintiff or anyone else left dissatisfied with the outcome generated by Winooski’s unique charter provisions and the SCOV’s recent jurisprudence, which indicates a trend toward limiting judicial review of administrative decisions, we offer the words of poet James Wright:In a pine tree,A few yards away from my window sill, A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and down,On a branch.I laugh, as I see him abandon himself To entire delight, for he knows as… [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 4:59 am
The best are like great poets and story tellers; the worst are loud and annoying hucksters. [read post]
12 Dec 2011, 8:56 am
Hon. [read post]
11 Dec 2011, 11:19 am
And the moderns: learning to read bits of Homer helped me to see that Lattimore (for example) though perhaps a bit pedestrian as a poet, is actually a pretty conscientious trot. [read post]
9 Dec 2011, 2:00 am
The great Roman Poet, Publius Vergilius Maro (aka “Vergil”), used the line in The Georgics, a poem about farming and nature (think culture meets agriculture): “Quin et caudicibus sectis—mirabile dictu— truditur e sicco radix oleagina ligno. [read post]
4 Dec 2011, 8:59 pm
--Katha Upanishad: 1.3.14, Vedic priest-poet (circa 1000-400 B.C.) [read post]
3 Dec 2011, 3:16 pm
Since human fallibility is fun to read about, and the dead can't sue for defamation, there's an emphasis on the failures and foibles of dead poets, novelists, dramatists, editors and publishers. [read post]
