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Camille Paglia critiques the twentieth century’s most famous men and women of letters. Read the review of Paglia's book "Break, Blow, Burn" and the profile of Paglia...
...Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu. —Read the review of Paglia's book "Break, Blow, Burn" and her quotes on famous poets...
...have a friend at Princeton who’s an economics major, and I’m sending him a copy of “Break, Blow, Burn.” If anyone can convince him that poetry’s value shouldn’t be measured by its impact on the GDP, it’s Camille Paglia, the university professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia...
Paglia’s collection of “forty-three of the world’s best poems” in English, each paired with a brief critical essay, has all the passion and eloquence of the volume’s title. The phrase “break, blow, burn” is drawn from a sonnet by the seventeenth-century poet John Donne, but here it has a decidedly contemporary ring...
...same time, “Break, Blow, Burn” may function best as an introductory text. Poetry aficionados will admire the elegant economy with which Paglia lays out the central moves of each work. If there is a famous poem that a reader has never particularly enjoyed—for me, it was Wallace Stevens’ “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock”—Paglia’s analysis will help the reader understand its merits. But, while her analysis will unquestionably enrich a reader’s understanding...