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...Adam to his wife’s Eve in the garden.Blake shares with the children his completed collection “Songs of Innocence,” and Maggie is struck by the opposition she sees between her own life experience and the pastoral idyll of childhood in the poems??mothers gazing lovingly upon their sleeping infants and so on—and the hardships that come with age. Having experienced hardship in Piddletrenthide, Jem is not so convinced of the opposition.“Dunno as they be opposites exactly,” he muses.In an intriguing...
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...
Renowned poet Louise Glück read from her newly-reased collection “Averno: Poems?? at Harvard Hillel last night, in the first of a series of talks celebrating National Poetry Month sponsored by the Harvard Book Store...
...always, the essays are based upon detailed and sustained close readings of individual poems??the kind of readings for which students who have taken Professor Vendler’s Literature and Arts A-22, “Poems, Poets, Poetry,” core class, or one of her courses in the English department, will remember...
...poems seem to be a general success, even with those who can’t understand them. “Poems??good!” smiles a French couple enthusiastically...