Poetry
Oct. 15, 2009
How to Make a Movie About a Writer
Yesterday I saw Jane Campion’s movie “Bright Star,” about the doomed romance between the poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, and I liked it very much. How could I not like it? The romantic hero is a writer. You don’t see that very often. Writers make bad film protagonists because the real work of writing [...]
Tags: Jane Campion · John Keats
Sep. 27, 2009
Eavan Boland: “Quarantine”
In the worst hour of the worst season / of the worst year of a whole people / a man set out from the workhouse with his wife….
Tags: Eavan Boland · poems
Sep. 1, 2009
George Herbert: “Church Monuments”
…flesh is but the glass which holds the dust / That measures all our time; which also shall / Be crumbled into dust….
Tags: audio · George Herbert · poems
Aug. 26, 2009
Wallace Stevens: “The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm”
A poem for summer reading, “The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm” by Wallace Stevens.
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Aug. 20, 2009
Philip Larkin: “This Is the First Thing”
This is the first thing / I have understood: / Time is the echo of an axe / Within a wood.
Tags: Philip Larkin · poems
