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Louis MacNeice: Collected Poems NY Times Book Review
In his New York Times Sunday Book Review of Louis MacNeice’s Collected Poems, entitled “Free Range”, David Orr praises the palimpsestic nature of MacNeice’s final volume. There is a haunting quality, perhaps to do with MacNeice’s talent for refrain, which provides a chilling echo that permeates the soul and leaves the reader with lingering questions…
Continue ReadingA Lil’ Bit of Lit. Crit.
What is the place of poetry in modern society? An unoriginal question, I know. But, it is clear that, at best, there is a certain collective ambivalence towards it, evidenced by the shrinking sections of poetry in libraries, bookstores, and on personal bookshelves. Poetry, sadly (or not-so-sadly for others), is often declared to be a…
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