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The lyric I is the specter and the muse of contemporary American poetry.

Then, again, one day, the one who was once young will learn that somewhere at the other end of this very earth the older one has died. At first she...

Uniformity cannot exist in a typeface inspired by humanity.

Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a three-part essay. To read the first installment visit this link. Here’s a distinction I try to honor: criticism may sometimes have a professional...

I want to begin this editor’s note with gratitude.

Maps, oh maps! […] sometimes in my sleep, I find myself walking on a map-like space, searching for a place I can at last call my own. But it always...

For any writer, the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge brings moments of painful recognition at every turn. Richard Holmes’s magisterial biography of Coleridge is replete with examples of the Romantic...

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In Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read, critic Terry Eagleton declares: “A critique must establish a certain distance from its object in order to appraise it.”...

“November has come to the forest”