Category: Essay

At Lady Violet’s

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Imagining the Real

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Byron’s Don Juan

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On Pedantry

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The Thespians

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The Silencing of Ophelia

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The Winter’s Tale? A Life of Anthony Hecht

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Stories, Seen and Unseen

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Edmund Keeley’s Poems of Age

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A Meditation on Ariel’s Song

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Frieze Frame: Part IV

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Frieze Frame: Part II

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Frieze Frame: Part III

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Frieze Frame: Part I

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NB by J.C.: A Walk Through the Times Literary Supplement

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The Forsyte Saga at 100

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The Art of Betrayal: Translation in an Age of Suspicion

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A Donne Deal

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Of Craft and Matter

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The Sixties Heroine: “A mature and adult female of her species at last”

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Lessons of Montaigne

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An Excellent Woman

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War and Imagination

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Cavafy’s Homer

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Anthony Hecht: “More Light! More Light!”

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The Hungry Artist: Rereading Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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“A tomb for thee, my babe!” Bad Poems for the Death of Children

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The Jab: A True Story of Inoculation and Vaccine

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Returning to Roethke

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The Audacities of Molière’s Don Juan

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Suggestions for a Better Ending

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Rounds of the Prado: The Place of Painting

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On the Anonymous Lover/ L’Amant Anonyme

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From Eliot Among the Women

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Like Sheep: On Translating a Literary Plague in a Time of Pandemic

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Rereading Faulkner

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Reading Ovid

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The Poetry of Ted Kooser

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Churchgoing

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The Possibilities of Life-Writing

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The Shakespeareans

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Roth/Updike

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Blue Monotone

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A Brief History of the Huron

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The Genesis of “Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom”

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Siegfried’s Bloodline

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A Being in Time: On the Poetry of Frederick Morgan

Gods, Gurus, and the Search for the Holy Grail: Bach Recordings from 2018

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From The Beauty of the World, Part II

Places Lost and Found