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Wit and Metaphor in George Herbert’s ‘Love (III)” [by David Lehman]
Like John Donne and Gerard Manley Hopkins, though not as flamboyant as the first or as metrically inventive as the second, George Herbert proved that devotional poetry can generate high intellectual excitement. Born in…
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New Trilling Essay the Talk of the Town
The emergence of a previously unknown and uncharacteristically fiery essay by Lionel Trilling is all the buzz in intellectual circles. Our stringers at far-flung campuses report the excitement at faculty clubs and academic production…
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Much better late than never. . .a (more or less) favorable review
Today (3/31/21), Caesura posted Inspector Watt's review of Poems in the Manner of, and in a curiously contrarian way I am pleased that in the poetry business, in which it sometimes seems that business…
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Squib 456: Tales of the Sixties; The Hippies [by Alan Ziegler]
(Excerpted from The Incomplete, an unpublished novel based on real events.) The Common College student arts organization, Wastelanders, had a budgetary crisis. We’d had a great run of poetry readings, art shows, and…
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“Flesh 78” [by Herbert Engelhardt, 1925-2021]
Flesh 78 Brancusi hinted itGiacometti stinted it Miró laughed at itDegas choreographed it Bosch hated itBruegel skated it Watteau crêpe de chine covered itManet gape to dine uncovered it Botticelli virgin Spring emergedTitian love-in…
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On James Schuyler’s “Arches” [by Edward Hirsch]
James Schuyler is often celebrated as a poet who celebrated the everyday and ordinary, what he called “the pure pleasure of / Simply looking.” He took a…
