Works by David Mason
Autumn 2026

James Joyce and Politics

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Summer 2026

Remembering Emily Grosholz (1950–2026)

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Summer 2026

The Mystery of Muriel Spark

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Summer 2026

Citizens of the Wind; The Salt Waking; A Drawn-Out Anxious Sense; The Extinction of the Dinosaurs

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Spring 2026

Tennyson, Young and Old

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Winter 2026

The Making of Gertrude Stein

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Autumn 2025

The Gypsy Life of Robert Louis Stevenson

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Summer 2025

Orhan Pamuk, Curated

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Spring 2025

The Dark Laughter of Mark Twain

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Winter 2025

Borgesian Realities

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Autumn 2024

The Heroic Industry of the Brothers Grimm

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Summer 2024

Cold Fire

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Summer 2024

Auden’s Way

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Spring 2024

My Other Life; Solstice in Age; Trees Full of Prayers; The Way It Is

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Spring 2024

Flanagan’s Tasmania

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Winter 2024

Lord Byron—Seven Takes

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Autumn 2023

Frederick Morgan Poetry Contest 2023

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Autumn 2023

The Example of Seamus Heaney

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Summer 2023

Kafka Agonistes

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Summer 2023

Edmund Keeley’s Poems of Age

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Spring 2023

The Eros of Shirley Hazzard

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Spring 2023

Coffee

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Autumn 2022

Auden’s Abundance

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Summer 2022

Shipmates; An Ancient Story

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Summer 2022

The Mythic Readings of Roberto Calasso

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Spring 2022

Concord and the Transcendentalists

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Winter 2022

War and Imagination

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Autumn 2021

Lawrence Rising

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Summer 2021

Crossing the Line; Western Light; Biographia Literaria

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Summer 2021

Epiphany, 1937

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Summer 2021

The Priorities of Robert Frost

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Spring 2021

Homage to Tom Stoppard

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Winter 2021

The Perils of Fame: Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney

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Robert Stone and American Wreckage

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Spring 2020

Two Poet-Critics

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Winter 2020

The Durable Art of Elizabeth Bishop

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Autumn 2019

Kierkegaard’s Leap

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Summer 2019

The Birthday Boy; Salvaged Lines; An Anniversary; The Suicide’s House

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Summer 2019

A Cast of Individuals

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Spring 2019

The One Story of Robert Graves

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Winter 2019

A Being in Time: On the Poetry of Frederick Morgan

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Winter 2019

Digging Up Diderot

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Autumn 2018

Pacific Light; The Lover Making Tea

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Summer 2018

Neruda’s Voice

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Winter 2018

The Civil Tongue of Richard Wilbur

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Autumn 2017

The Freedom of Montaigne

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Summer 2017

The Glowing

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Summer 2016

Man of Action, Man of Letters

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Winter 2011

Mrs. Mason and the Poets

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Autumn 2010

Anthologizing Magnitude

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Summer 2010

Youth in Age, Age in Youth

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Winter 2016

Against Identity

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Autumn 2015

Awe for Auden

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Summer 2015

The Sound; Bildungsroman

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Summer 2015

Merrill’s Intimations

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Winter 2015

Ariel and Co.

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Autumn 2014

The Fame of Derek Walcott

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Summer 2014

Letter from Tasmania

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Winter 2014

Levels of Ambition

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Autumn 2013

W. S. Merwin, American Proteus

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Autumn 2013

The Insert; Tree Light House

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Summer 2013

The Unseeable, Unsayable World

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Spring 2013

Mind

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Spring 2012

The Dark Delight of Ambrose Bierce

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Autumn 2012

Dying to Write Poetry

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Spring 2012

When I Didn’t Get the News; Let It Go

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Autumn 2009

Travelers

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Summer 2009

Robert Burns’s Inspired Clay

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Summer 2009

Five Poets

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Winter 2009

In Memoriam: Hayden Carruth (1921–2008)

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Autumn 2008

The Wounded Laureate

Spring 2008

Translations from the Unborn; Memo from Above; A Kiss of Frost; A Sort of Oracle

Autumn 2007

The Long and the Short of Robinson

Spring 2007

The Poetry Circus

Summer 2006

Out Here; The Summit; The Strait; In the Mushroom Summer

Winter 2006

The Inner Drama of James Wright

Autumn 2005

Reinventing the Greeks

Summer 2005

The Passionate Pursuit of the Real

Autumn 2004

Ludlow: A Verse Novel

Summer 2004

Seven Poets

Spring 2004

Close to Seferis

Winter 2004

The End of Immortality

Autumn 2003

The Dream of Travel

Spring 2003

Small Steps

Winter 2003

Stories and Lines

Autumn 2002

Reading Greece

Summer 2002

Letter from Turkey

Summer 2002

Mumbai Ghazal; A Beggar of Chennai; Towers of Silence

Winter 2002

In Praise of Artifice

Winter 2001

Modern American Poetry and the Hopper of Civilization

Summer 2000

The Dhow’s Gaze: Some Thoughts on Postcolonial Studies

Spring 2000

Swimmers on the Shore; Solstice; Ballade at 3 A.M.

Spring 1999

Varieties of Poetic Experience

Autumn 1998

The Lotos-Eaters

Spring 1998

In Transit; Acrostic from Aegina; Untitled

Spring 1998

Subdividing Parnassus

Autumn 1997

Poems from Greece

Summer 1997

Letter from Greece

Spring 1997

Irish Poetry at the Crossroads

Spring 1996

Poetry Chronicle

Winter 1996

The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry

Autumn 1995

Louis Simpson’s Singular Charm

Summer 1995

The Country I Remember: A Narrative

Winter 1995

Auden Onstage

Summer 1994

The Escape; The Summer of Love; No One Had Told Us

Spring 1994

West Indian Discoveries

Winter 1994

Milton’s Fame in Heaven

Spring 1993

Poetry Chronicle

Winter 1993

Mythical Histories

Spring 1992

Anne Sexton and Her Times

Winter 1992

Fiction Chronicle

Autumn 1991

Poetry Chronicle

Spring 1991

Achilles in the No Man’s Land

Winter 1991

Spooning