Category: Criticism

Rags, Garbage, and Fantasy

The Question of Poetic Form

Pushkin in English

The Inside and the Outside

Archilochos: Fireworks on the Grass

The Rise of the Dramatic Monologue

The Specialization of Poetry

All in the Foreground

Having His Own Mind to Stand by Him

The Aeneid and Its Translators

Man of Two Worlds

Boyish Charmer and Last Mad Genius

Kafka’s Paradise

Selections from the Gods, trans. by Richard Pevear

Samuel Johnson and the Artist’s Work

Fallacies of Silence

The Word-Pictures in Hamlet

Poetry’s Debt to Poetry

Wyndham Lewis as Futurist

K. Lorenz, and the Dog Beneath the Skin

L. Frank Baum, and Oz

The Temptation of Giant Despair

Sinyavsky in Two Worlds

Oscar Wilde and the Importance of Doing Nothing

The Aesthetics of the Actor’s Appearance

Calvinism in Action: The Super-Ego Triumphant

Notes on the Cantos of Ezra Pound

Free Women

On the Memoirs of Nadezhda Mandelstam

Molière’s Dom Juan

The Tables Speak

Mishima Yukio

Towards a Science of Form

The Unforeseen Wilderness

The Revolt of the Body, trans. by Monique Fong

A Secular Pilgrimage

Varieties of Infernal Experience

The Ogre at the Feast of Life

Bounding “Lycidas”

Encounter with the Void

The Alchemist

The Structuralist Debate

Valéry Before His Idols

Valéry: L’Homme d’esprit

Symbolism and the Underground

Balzac: Melodrama and Metaphor

Presence and the Present

Middlemarch: Touching Down

Newer Criticism and Revolution

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