Anecdotal Evidence

“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...

“I know, for both of us, the dead world’s much too crowded.”   Live long enough and all, reluctantly, must agree. Most of our relatives an...