Poe's Aesthetic of Disgust, and More

Torture devices, evil eyes, tufts of hair: Edgar Allan Poe created a lasting aesthetic of disgust... more »

Ethical statements have no objective truth and are thus subjective. So went the prevailing Oxford moral philosophy of the 1930s and '40s... more »

John Ashbery was a poet of experiment and verbal adventure, of charity and self-forgiveness, and also …