Category: Criticism

A Pilgrimage to Santayana

The Dhow’s Gaze: Some Thoughts on Postcolonial Studies

A New Mode of Damnation?: On Hart Crane

Alexis de Tocqueville: A Nice Place to Visit

Language as Prosthesis

Mr. Wilson’s Literary Life

Shine in the Dreadfull Dark: The Sidnean Psalms

The Anomaly of Edwin Muir

Here Comes Everybody: British Poetry Today

The Wordsworth Retrospective

André Gide, Evangelist

Music Was the Food of Love: So Was Architecture, Painting and Verse

Santayana Today

When the Ecstatic Body Grips

Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, and the End of Sex

The Magus of the North: Sir Isaiah Berlin 1909-97

The Medical Keats

Wrestling with Heidegger

Time’s Up

The Lure of Unreason

Iris Murdoch and the Net of Theory

Hamlet, Revenge!

George Washington, An Amateur’s View

From the Outside In: A History of American Autobiography

Ecology and Ecstasy on Interstate 80

Learning from Robert Fitzgerald

Nell and I

A Story of Deep Delight: The Life of Robert Penn Warren

Will Georges Braque Ever Get His Due?

Emily Dickinson: The Heft of Cathedral Tunes

The Messiah of Modernism: F.R.Leavis 1895-1978

What to Do with Carlyle?

Kingdom of the Sweet

Southern Classics

Irish Poetry at the Crossroads

Harold Bloom and King Lear: Tragic Misreading

Water-Wheels: The Factory on the River

I Was Kingsley Amis

Historic Theatres

Eliot’s “Marina” and Closure

Responding to Blake

Politics, the Media, James Fallows, and Me

Mistah Lowell—He Dead

What’s So Great About Vermeer?

The Hand of the Poet: The Magical Value of Manuscripts

The Death of a Finch

Prophet Against God: William Empson 1906-84

Frank Tuohy and the Poetics of Depression

The Pleasures of Reading

The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry