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...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...
Those who read “Break, Blow, Burn,” and appreciate Paglia’s wit and panache, however, may find themselves wishing she had written a slightly different book. Paglia’s passionate defense of the poems she loves is worthwhile, but a passionate attack on the poetry she considers overrated would have been irresistible...
...would also have been illuminating. Paglia’s decided opinions about what makes a poem great inform her analysis in “Break, Blow, Burn,” and she devotes a few pages to her poetic philosophy in her introduction. But the greatness of almost all the poems she discusses here is uncontroversial, so her viewpoint does not emerge as clearly as it could...
...Read the profile of Paglia too. Break, Blow, Burn...