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Simon Heffer had always believed there were raging currents in TS Eliot, yet the poet of 'Prufrock' kept them well out of sight in his letters. For the last few days, I have been working my way through the two huge volumes of...
Modernism is an art resulting from contradictions. In fact when striving for definitions of Modernism, a tendency to think in terms of binary oppositions. The end of Victorian certainty points then towards modernist uncertainty...
W hile much of the media’s attention over this year’s Nobel Prizes was over Barack Obama’s shock Nobel Peace Prize Award, a similarly contentious (if more under the radar) Nobel Prize went to Romanian/German author Herta...
Semantic Properties of Formal Poetic Structure Louis Zukofsky used every aspect of the written word to create multi-faceted poems which replicate the dynamics of worldly, human experience. Lead theorist of the Objectivist...
"When Nabokov died in 1977 he left behind a loving family, international fame, and a last request: the destruction, by fire, of the notes for his final work in progress. All expectations to the contrary, these have now been...
Lou Harrison called him “the central switchboard for two or three generations of American composers.” John Cage said he was the “open sesame” of American music. Yet Henry Cowell’s significance to American music remains...
Edgar Allan Poe, Honore de Balzac, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Audrey Hepburn, and even Jim Carrey all had something in common. Aside from being renowned artists, they were also afflicted with depression. It has been a great...
Blake Morrison celebrates the ups and downs of the Poetry Society and its journal's centenary With the handover of the laureateship, the Oxford poetry professorship debacle, the 30th anniversary of Radio 4's Poetry Please and a...
Letters give us the life as lived — day-to-day, shapeless, haphazard, contingent, imperfect, authentic. That is their value. Life-writing, biography, is plotted, shaped by an argument and is summary, selective and often...
I’ve read through lecture 9 now, on Ezra Pound. Since this is a class that anyone can read, I don’t want to simply repeat Langdon Hammer’s insights. In the Yeats section (3 lectures), Hammer discusses what he sees as Yeats’...
