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Seven Terrific Anthologies [recommended by David Lehman]
* Louis Untermeyer, A Concise Treasure of American Poetry (Pocket Books). A peerless one-volume introduction to American poetry. Untermeyer's biographical notes and comments are exemplary. See the note on William Cullen Bryant. * The New…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: December 20, 2023
Earlier this year Ecco/Harper Collins published Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate. For fans of Tate, the book is essential! As a fan myself, I even own Lucky Darryl (a novel…
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“Enigmas” [by Samuel Greenberg]
I've been ill amongst my fellow kind And yet have borne with me joys …
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Sixty-Five): Jonathan Riccio [by Angela Ball]
Anne Sexton’s Death, 45 Years Ago Today I don’t smoke but would’ve at your behest. Truth hasn’t the same domesticity mingling a throat. I have a doll theory that explains the orbiters to whom…
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Trilling, Barzun, and the Colloquium on Important Books [by David Lehman]
Lionel Trilling, then an assistant professor at Columbia working on his thesis on Matthew Arnold, turned twenty-nine on July 4, 1934. That fall he and Jacques Barzun, 26, taught a seminar that convened on…
