… the manuscripts, even to “vagaries in the use of capitals and in spelling,” but obvious slips of the pen are … but for the wide circle of “Wordsworthians,” who will welcome this addendum to the poet’s works. Most of the letters … France presented to him a case in point. “In France incompatible things are aimed at—a monarchy and democracy to …
Poetry
… a well of fears? No ordinary rule applies because you’ve died already, died and died, as fresh annointings—salt, baptismal rain— become the ritual made new by moving on and moving through. …
Profiles
… the novels Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River, died unexpectedly at the age of thirty-seven. For the … echoed these sentiments, including Time in their Sept. 26, 1938 issue : The death last week of Thomas Clayton Wolfe … from Victoria to Vancouver. Wolfe biographer Joanne Maudlin points out that he probably contracted the disease in …
Essays
… After the book’s appearance there was a brief spate of encomiums, and, for a few weeks, the book was a “bestseller.” … first is the belief that there is no longer much of an audience for the kind of sentences Mitchell writes: the short, … Dickens achieved with the rhetoric of imagination.” Cowley points to both Mitchell’s and Dickens’ ability to derive …
Portfolios
… you can never go back. Without covers, hardcover books become confident blocks of wood—they don’t shimmy or slide in … orange wind-up bird toy against a baby-blue background gradient. Geoff Spear photographed the toy so that most of it … what I want for my own journey as a creative person. It also illustrates the process of finding solutions in design …
… way, and I in mine, have no hope of ever being civilians completely. Others, now in their seventies, sat on the … Osbert Sitwell wrote that the blackout made a medieval city of London. It didn’t. There were no pine … here a fragment of wall paper with faded rain-streaked animals of a nursery, there a drunken toilet, still clinging to …