James Longenbach | The Nation

A new biography of John Keats is no match for Keats’s poetic inventions.

Geoffrey Brock’s anthology of twentieth-century Italian poetry offers the risk of a counter-eloquence.

A new biography shortchanges the poetic achievement of William Carlos Williams.

Two volumes of T.S. Eliot's letters elucidate how the momentous achievements of his art were determined by moments of awful daring.

Perfection of the life or of the work? The correspondence between W.B. Yeats and his wife George shows the complexities of art and life entwined.

Emily Dickinson's reclusiveness was a way of protecting the world from herself.

In his best poems, Wallace Stevens makes deprivation feel seductively like plenitude.

Greider: An American Dream

Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.

Writing a biography of the mind of Shakespeare is a challenge that requires the ingenuity of an artist.