… partisan biography. In 1975 Anna Freud was unhappy about studies of her father, and proposed the creation of a “Defense League” like the secret committee her father had brought together before World War I … that reaction goes unmentioned. Bruno Bettelheim does not come up either, even in connection with Anna’s little essay …
Poetry
… all dissolving in the roar. I want to ask the dark who died and made me king: three times I’ve filled the tub and …
Criticism
… Master of Melody Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry . By Anthony … art and signifies “a sculptural technique of organizing or composing into a unified whole a group of unrelated and … finger), and more figuratively it means something that points out or indicates. A good index can be to a work of …
Poetry
… murderous patience, and the pomp Of pain swells like the Indies, or a plum. And there you will stand, as on the Roman … regards you with authority Till you feel like one who has come too late, or improperly clothed, to a party. The doctor … the dancers, and tells you how just last fall Her husband died in Ohio, and damp mists her glasses; She blinks and …
… Jefferson, Master Politician I It is commonly agreed that Thomas Jefferson was the most … of the people would sympathize with the Federalist fundamentals if they were known. Unfortunately for his purpose, a … and the champions of aristocratic government were in rhapsodies over Edmund Burke’s reactionary pamphlet, and John …
… from the beginning we could avoid all our own mistakes, false steps, tremendous waste, abuses of land and labor. … straight highways of easy grades; bridges planned to accommodate the traffic of years to come; cities located with … cannot regularly afford and seldom sees. His starch diet comes mainly from hard corn, which we call “horse …