Auden and Poggioli
This lovely remembrance by Sylvia Poggioli of her father, the literary scholar Renato Poggioli, features a letter to...
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hierophanies
“As things developed, she [Oedipa Maas] was to have all manner of revelations,” we are told in the first chapter of...
the Roman world and ours
So why am I reading about — I’m gonna coin a phrase here — the decline and fall of the Roman Empire? It started...
the devil’s bargain: part 1
So wrote R. P. Blackmur, an eminent poet and critic from Princeton University, writing in the Sewanee Review in 1945....
the internet and the Mezzogiorno
Auden on Ischia, by George Daniell From the late 1940s to the late 1950s, W. H. Auden spent part of each year on the...
more on knowledge and value
The tl;dr version of this post: In late capitalism, “Useful Knowledge” can take care of itself, and does. Let’s...
“It is good just by being knowledge”
Here’s a post on a familiar theme: academic papers that no one reads. Let’s take it as a given that there is too...
Auden’s two cheers for democracy
The major project I am currently working on concerns Christian humanism in a time to total war — in particular, in...
Franz und Kraus
Most of what I have to say about Jonathan Franzen’s ridiculous essay in the Guardian is communicated by the image...
poetry on page and screen
Here’s a really thoughtful post by Siobhan Phillips on the highly fraught relationship between e-readers and verse....