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Category Archives: poetry
Emily Dickinson’s Summer Reveries
(c) Copyright 2017 Margaret Langstaff, All Rights Reserved Summer, The Dickinson Homestead, Amherst, Mass. Emily Dickinson, one of America’s most beloved and misunderstood poets was an astute observer and student of the natural world. Nature’s changing pageantry, big bold and … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Emily Dickinson Poetry, Literary Classics, Literature, poetry, poets
Tagged Emily Dickinson, Poetry
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“I’m Nobody/Who are You?” Emily Dickinson: Major New Book & Exhibit
Posted in American Literature, Emily Dickinson Poetry, Literature, poetry
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Is It Just Me, or that “The World Is too Much with Us?”
I woke up at two a.m. this morning with this well-known masterpiece by the incomparable English bard Wordsworth coiling through my mind. This sonnet was penned in Britain just as the Industrial Revolution was upending the trusted old courtesies and … Continue reading
Baby, it’s cold inside …
The “Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.” Wallace Stevens was a seminal, groundbreaking American modernist poet. A contemporary of Eliot, he flipped the archetype of the wan, pale, misunderstood verbal virtuoso. Instead, he pursued a lucrative … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Literature, poetry, poets
Tagged Modernist Poetry, T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens
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The Father’s Eye. . .
I clipped this beautiful poem from the New York Times years ago. It still remains one of my all-time Christmas favorites. So subtle, understated and allusive. Thought I’d share while wishing you the joy of this miraculous season! Pardon the … Continue reading
Posted in Joseph Brodsky, Literature, poetry, poets
Tagged Christmas, New York Times, Nobel Prize for Literature
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Bob Dylan Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
Forever Young From CNN today: Book Critic Jay Parini on “Why Bob Dylan Deserves the Nobel Prize” WORTH READING Bob Dylan Lyrical Genius Album: Blonde on Blonde [1966] All lyrics are property and copyright of their respective owners and … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Literary Lions, Literature, poetry, poets
Tagged American Music, Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan, CNN, Jay Parini, Lyrics, music, Nobel Prize for Literature
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Ben Lerner’s ‘The Hatred of Poetry’ Revels in Paradox
Heads up, Poets. This review in Flavorwire (6/9/16) of Ben Lerner’s recent book-length essay on the disappointments and shortcomings of poetry is worth reading. Says reviewer Jonathan Sturgeon, “The Hatred of Poetry is an important essay because it doubles as … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, literary theory, Literature, poetry, poets
Tagged Ben Lerner, Flavorwire, Jonathan Sturgeon, Margaret Langstaff, Marianne Moore, Poetry
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