Author: zwood

In Pashas, a study of the Levant Trading Company, James Mather draws the reader’s attention to a map of the world published by the cartographer Herman Moll in 1719.⁠[1] On either side of a central cartouche bearing the...

Despite the long shadow of modernism, imported to England from America by Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, and the steady erosion of the English countryside by the industrial revolution since the days of William Blake, English poets...

Michael Chitwood’s seventh book, Poor-Mouth Jubilee, has an arresting cover photo—reminiscent of Walker Evans—that shows a worship service in an unpainted wooden church.⁠[1] Aside from the volume’s section “In God We...

The Greek anthology is unique in Western literature. Consisting of thousands of poems by many dozens of poets written over a period of almost 1,500 years (c. 700 BCE–600 CE) in a vast geographical area extending from the Greek...

It is an unspoken assumption that reviewers should shun books by authors they know personally. The reasoning is that no critic can be sufficiently disinterested to be reasonable when considering the work of a friend, colleague,...