Woolf on Writers and Readers Excerpt from Virginia Woolf’s famous essay, Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown: “In the course of [Read More] December 1, 2010
Seamus Heaney, Hercules, and Antaeus With Seamus Heaney’s recent publication of Human Chain, we hope you’d also enjoy [Read More] November 22, 2010
The Great Joyful Swamp From Charles Wright’s introduction to The Best American Poetry 2008 telling us we’d [Read More] November 20, 2010
Monday or Tuesday A short story (or “sketch,” if you like) by Virginia Woolf from 1921, when she was [Read More] November 15, 2010
Einstein, Editing Thoughts “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a [Read More] November 15, 2010
Sherlock on Fiction Sherlock Holmes, in “The Red Headed League” “My dear fellow,” said Sherlock [Read More] November 12, 2010
The Poet’s Experience When a poet’s mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate [Read More] November 10, 2010
Samuel Johnson on “Great Labour” “Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost; if they frequently [Read More] November 4, 2010
T.S. Eliot on “Art” In art there should be interpenetration and metamorphosis. ~~London Letters, September [Read More] November 3, 2010
Musings by T.S. Eliot Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it [Read More] October 28, 2010