Anecdotal Evidence

  This blog has been around for more than twenty years and I could easily devote the next twenty to replying to the complaints I often recei...

“It was wonderful luck for me that I should have worked with Yvor Winters. at this particular stage of my life, rather than earlier, when I ...

Donald Justice on Edwin Arlington Robinson:   “Robinson’s techniques were more or less the same as those of his contemporaries, the meters...

I spent much of Monday in the hospital for “tests” involving various bodily fluids – one more reminder that the human body is profoundly rid...

Recently I woke from a dream adapted from Nostromo and directed by Joseph Conrad. Something about Martin Decoud in the lifeboat, weighted d...

 A nton Chekhov wrote nothing in the summer of 1888 but thought about writing a novel. He stayed at the villa of his editor and friend Aleks...

L ike Edward Gibbon, Yvor Winters tucks some of his best stuff into footnotes. Take this provocation from “English Literature in the Sixteen...