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...someone wrote a protest song to accompany Camille Paglia??s push for academic reform, the lyrics would go something like this: “Put down that Foucault, baby. Drop that Derrida. Come and join the Paglia crusade...
...Paglia??the university professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia— is a cultural critic, provocateur, and one of the top twenty public intellectuals in the world, according to a Foreign Policy magazine survey this fall...
...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...
...difficult to articulate to my economist friend exactly what makes a poem I love a great poem. That’s what Paglia does here. She has the patience and mastery to work slowly through each poem, explaining what the lines mean and analyzing their effects. Paglia??s approach is simple without being simplistic. From Shakespeare to Dickinson to Yeats to Plath, her criticism is readable and flawlessly done...
...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 of an already-beloved work, it may not advance it to the next level...