Poetic Prerequisites, and More

“A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written”...

Robert Frost's poetic prerequisites: “A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written” ... more »

Joseph Epstein: “I may very well be one of those pathetic types whose ambition is four or five times greater than his talent”... more »

“A tissue of horrors” telling of “an intoxicating spree of universal atrocity” — 19th-century France r…