… for their momentary popularity. Such fleeting praise, coming from the thin minds of those who read only to be in … and the prevalence of a group of pale “intellectuals” who devour pages without a taste for them—I can … drab realities of average living until it has lost its audience through its own dullness. A tale which used to open …
Playing Dead Who will write this poem? Don’t ask the silence. It doesn’t answer anyone. Don’t ask the alphabet, sound asleep again. Don’t ask the pen. It is out of thought and ink. What will we write it with? Don’t ask the pencil either, It has a broken …
… we three men talking, the young Harvard Yankee who had come some strange way into the Southern labor movement, the … the South. It is moving now and its numbers and its power come from the very poor. “To tell you the truth,” the labor … for thinking and planning in the South in terms of old ideals of free men on their own land, even though for millions …
Essays
… / Art Resource, NY.) Poetry . I moved to California to become a poet. Or maybe it was an accident, which is, of … “Know ye,” he writes, “that at the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very close to … and possibility that marks not just Haight-Ashbury but also any romantic bohemian movement, the lucky vacation for …
Criticism
… Children of the Middle Ages Medieval Children. By Nicholas Orme. Yale University Press. … the argument suspect. In different ways, and from different points of view, by pointing out the misuse of the sources, … is a traditional insular history, without any effort to compare it with developments on the continent. Even so, the …
… its rich illustrations of streets, is the more to be welcomed. Though well informed, it is proud to be naïve … All great cities are absurd, and should be. They have ladies in improbable costumes, preferably with lapdogs, old … from across its lake; others, like London, have few vantage-points, though the top of Hampstead Heath or Greenwich Park …