16 May, 2011
Larkin in Love
Anthony Thwaite's Letters to Monica reveals affection and the quotidian in Larkin's correspondence with Monica Jones.
Category: Poetry
2 May, 2011
Half in Love
Savich's The Firestorm navigates a frozen transformation, vacillating between entrancement and estrangement.
4 April, 2011
The Finite Furnished with the Infinite
Helen Vendler's Dickinson balances a broad view of the poet's life with a penetrating philosophical depth.
28 February, 2011
The Syntactical Sublime
Timothy Donnelly's The Cloud Corporation depicts a world whose control has been ceded to the power of exchange.
Heartache in His Head
Craig Raine's How Snow Falls sweeps away pieties to examine the perverse nuances of grief.
A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
Seamus Heaney's Human Chain treats the transient chains of human relationships.
Eat Your Good Lamb
Daniel Picker recounts his experience studying poetry under Seamus Heaney at Harvard.
14 February, 2011
Song of Himself
More pretentious than insightful, C.K. Williams's On Whitman promises much but delivers little.
