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The British have aged and mellowed their institution of poet laureate for three centuries. Some who read the effusions of the present laureate, Sir John Betjeman, think that the process is better described as decay. Two weeks agd, when the Queen Mother turned 80, Sir John released a poem of...
Gardner has taught English literature at Oxford since 1965. She has written several books, including "The Art of T.S. Eliot," "The Elegies and the Songs and Sonnets of John Donne," and most recently, "The Composition of Four Quarters."
Germans are caught in a painful damned-if-they-do, damned-if-they-don't dilemma with their terrorists. If they enact tough laws against radical violence, they are "Nazis again." If they do not, social order might fray to the point that real and dangerous repression would become...
Kermode, a prominent literary critic on leave from Cambridge University, in England, has written extensively on Shakespeare, Milton, Donne, Spenser and Wallace Stevens.
The rejuvenating ambience of autumn is immeasurably more ancient than even the calendar. The Creation itself was achieved in the autumn, according to a tradition of Judaism-whence the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, at summer's end or the start of fall. The suspicion that even God is...