“The connections made with Dante are extremely varied, as if his celebrated universality has made it possible for poets to engage his work on many levels and often on utterly divergent terms,” they ...

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 ...

A showcase of poets who explore language and the digital world are turning a new poetry class at Rochester Institute of Technology into a cultural event. The pilot class, Digital and Contemporary ...

Michigan is known for its Poets on Poetry series, which collects the prose statements, interviews and poetry-related ephemera of individual contemporary poets; this anthology of frank interviews fits ...

To judge from outward appearances, one might imagine that poetry occupies a place of unprecedented importance, at least in America. There are now more poets writing here than there have ever been — ...

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THERE is an air of general propitiousness about Josephine Young Case’s At Midnight on theThirty-first of March (Houghton Mifflin, $2.00) that gives it an exhilarating effect from first to last. The ...

MR. HOWELLS practices the profession of the critic somewhat half-heartedly, with little seeming care whether he is original, convincing, or even thorough. Does he suspect that his own critical work is ...

In December 1990, poet Cornelius Eady, now 71, was feeling dispirited by the literary world. He’d attended the Assn. of Writers & Writing Programs conference in Denver that year and felt like he was ...

The Met Goes Oceanic, Mayan, and Edo in the Reborn Rockefeller Wing Why We Still Whisper A Case for Science as an Ally of Faith Audio By Carbonatix James Matthew Wilson is an award-winning professor ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Cover design for "On Modern Poets," ...