What does mathematics have to do with poetry? Seemingly, nothing. Mathematics deals with abstractions while poetry with emotions. And yet, the two share something essential: ...
Continue Reading →As civilian war poetry (written under the shattering impact of World War II), Trilogy’s three long poems rank with T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets and ...
Continue Reading →A new collection of essays from a distinguished critic of contemporary poetry. Marjorie Perloff is one of the foremost critics of contemporary American poetry writing ...
Continue Reading →William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary ...
Continue Reading → Although he is most famous for The Faerie Queene, this volume demonstrates that for these poems alone Spenser should still be ranked as one ...
Continue Reading →The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. Books I–III were first published in 1590, then republished in 1596 together with books ...
Continue Reading →Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, ...
Continue Reading →Catullus’ life was akin to pulp fiction. In Julius Caesar’s Rome, he engages in a stormy affair with a consul’s wife. He writes her passionate ...
Continue Reading →Of the Greek lyric poets, Pindar (ca. 518-438 BCE) was “by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration” in Quintilian’s view; Horace judged ...
Continue Reading →En 1549, Henri II faisait à Paris une ” triomphale entrée “. Cette consécration du nouveau pouvoir était en même temps celle d’une ...
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