Anecdotal Evidence

I often think about the continuity of personality. Not in the abstract sense, as an academic exercise in human psychology. Rather, as an asp...

The Crimean War (1854-56) is remembered in the West for being the first photographically documented major conflict and for Tennyson’s barnbu...

Marius Kociejowski has written to tell me the poet, critic, translator, Islamic scholar and voluptuary of sound Eric Ormsby has died, appare...

Among humans, complaining is always annoying. Short of murder, rape, theft and treason, it may be our most detestable quality. A complainer ...

  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...