Widower's Tango

As I watch, from the other side of the world, the disaster in the Carolinas wrought by Hurricane Florence, I have very mixed feelings. I ...

The qualities that distinguish the poetry of Philip Larkin (1922-1985) - accessibility both formal and syntactical, traditional meter and...

Some time around my third year of college I fell under the spell (which is the most accurate way of putting it) of Robert Graves (1895-198...

As an afterthought to my original post "On Turning 50", there are two excellent reasons why I neither feel nor look (nor act, for ...

Some people wonder where the "poetic sense" kicks in - if it is simply an intellectual faculty, an ideology imposed from without. ...