Author, Reviewer David Mason Articles by David Mason Autumn 2024 The Heroic Industry of the Brothers Grimm Full Text Book Review Summer 2024 Cold Fire Full Text Poetry Subscriber Only Summer 2024 Auden’s Way Full Text Book Review Spring 2024 My Other Life; Solstice in Age; Trees Full of Prayers; The Way It Is Full Text Poetry Spring 2024 Flanagan’s Tasmania Full Text Book Review Subscriber Only Winter 2024 Lord Byron—Seven Takes Full Text Book Review Autumn 2023 Frederick Morgan Poetry Contest 2023 Full Text Uncategorized Autumn 2023 The Example of Seamus Heaney Full Text Book Review Summer 2023 Kafka Agonistes Full Text Book Review Summer 2023 Edmund Keeley’s Poems of Age Full Text Essay Spring 2023 The Eros of Shirley Hazzard Full Text Book Review Spring 2023 Coffee Full Text Poetry Autumn 2022 Auden’s Abundance Full Text Book Review Subscriber Only Summer 2022 Shipmates; An Ancient Story Full Text Poetry Summer 2022 The Mythic Readings of Roberto Calasso Full Text Book Review Subscriber Only Spring 2022 Concord and the Transcendentalists Full Text Book Review Subscriber Only Winter 2022 War and Imagination Full Text Essay Autumn 2021 Lawrence Rising Full Text Book Review Subscriber Only Summer 2021 Crossing the Line; Western Light; Biographia Literaria Full Text Poetry Subscriber Only Summer 2021 Epiphany, 1937 Full Text Poetry Summer 2021 The Priorities of Robert Frost Full Text Book Review Subscriber Only Spring 2021 Homage to Tom Stoppard Full Text Book Review Winter 2021 The Perils of Fame: Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney Full Text Book Review Robert Stone and American Wreckage Full Text Book Review Subscriber Only Spring 2020 Two Poet-Critics Full Text Book Review Winter 2020 The Durable Art of Elizabeth Bishop Full Text Book Review Autumn 2019 Kierkegaard’s Leap Full Text Book Review Summer 2019 The Birthday Boy; Salvaged Lines; An Anniversary; The Suicide’s House Full Text Poetry Subscriber Only Summer 2019 A Cast of Individuals Full Text Book Review Subscriber Only Spring 2019 The One Story of Robert Graves Full Text Book Review Winter 2019 A Being in Time: On the Poetry of Frederick Morgan Criticism Essay Winter 2019 Digging Up Diderot Full Text Book Review Autumn 2018 Pacific Light; The Lover Making Tea Poetry Summer 2018 Neruda’s Voice Full Text Book Review Winter 2018 The Civil Tongue of Richard Wilbur Book Review Autumn 2017 The Freedom of Montaigne Full Text Book Review Summer 2017 The Glowing Poetry Summer 2016 Man of Action, Man of Letters Essay Winter 2011 Mrs. Mason and the Poets Poetry Autumn 2010 Anthologizing Magnitude Book Review Summer 2010 Youth in Age, Age in Youth Book Review Winter 2016 Against Identity Book Review Autumn 2015 Awe for Auden Book Review Summer 2015 The Sound; Bildungsroman Poetry Summer 2015 Merrill’s Intimations Full Text Book Review Winter 2015 Ariel and Co. Book Review Autumn 2014 The Fame of Derek Walcott Full Text Book Review Summer 2014 Letter from Tasmania Comment Winter 2014 Levels of Ambition Full Text Book Review Autumn 2013 W. S. Merwin, American Proteus Book Review Autumn 2013 The Insert; Tree Light House Poetry Summer 2013 The Unseeable, Unsayable World Book Review Spring 2013 Mind Poetry Spring 2012 When I Didn’t Get the News; Let It Go Full Text Poetry Spring 2012 When I Didn’t Get the News; Let It Go Poetry Spring 2012 The Dark Delight of Ambrose Bierce Criticism Autumn 2012 Dying to Write Poetry Full Text Book Review Spring 2012 When I Didn’t Get the News; Let It Go Poetry Autumn 2009 Travelers Book Review Summer 2009 Robert Burns’s Inspired Clay Criticism Summer 2009 Five Poets Book Review Winter 2009 In Memoriam: Hayden Carruth (1921–2008) Comment Autumn 2008 The Wounded Laureate Book Review Spring 2008 Translations from the Unborn; Memo from Above; A Kiss of Frost; A Sort of Oracle Poetry Autumn 2007 The Long and the Short of Robinson Book Review Spring 2007 The Poetry Circus Uncategorized Summer 2006 Out Here; The Summit; The Strait; In the Mushroom Summer Poetry Winter 2006 The Inner Drama of James Wright Book Review Autumn 2005 Reinventing the Greeks Book Review Summer 2005 The Passionate Pursuit of the Real Reviews Autumn 2004 Ludlow: A Verse Novel Poetry Summer 2004 Seven Poets Book Review Spring 2004 Close to Seferis Book Review Winter 2004 The End of Immortality Memoir Autumn 2003 The Dream of Travel Book Review Spring 2003 Small Steps Poetry Winter 2003 Stories and Lines Book Review Autumn 2002 Reading Greece Criticism Summer 2002 Letter from Turkey Comment Summer 2002 Mumbai Ghazal; A Beggar of Chennai; Towers of Silence Poetry Winter 2002 In Praise of Artifice Book Review Winter 2001 Modern American Poetry and the Hopper of Civilization Book Review Summer 2000 The Dhow’s Gaze: Some Thoughts on Postcolonial Studies Criticism Spring 2000 Swimmers on the Shore; Solstice; Ballade at 3 A.M. Poetry Spring 1999 Varieties of Poetic Experience Book Review Autumn 1998 The Lotos-Eaters Memoir Spring 1998 In Transit; Acrostic from Aegina; Untitled Poetry Spring 1998 Subdividing Parnassus Book Review Autumn 1997 Poems from Greece Poetry Summer 1997 Letter from Greece Comment Spring 1997 Irish Poetry at the Crossroads Criticism Spring 1996 Poetry Chronicle Book Review Winter 1996 The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry Criticism Autumn 1995 Louis Simpson’s Singular Charm Book Review Summer 1995 The Country I Remember: A Narrative Poetry Winter 1995 Auden Onstage Criticism Summer 1994 The Escape; The Summer of Love; No One Had Told Us Poetry Spring 1994 West Indian Discoveries Arts Review Winter 1994 Milton’s Fame in Heaven Criticism Spring 1993 Poetry Chronicle Book Review Winter 1993 Mythical Histories Book Review Spring 1992 Anne Sexton and Her Times Book Review Winter 1992 Fiction Chronicle Book Review Autumn 1991 Poetry Chronicle Book Review Spring 1991 Achilles in the No Man’s Land Book Review Winter 1991 Spooning Poetry
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