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CultureSeptember 6, 2011
Visions and Revisions: On T.S. Eliot
Two volumes of T.S. Eliot’s letters elucidate how the momentous achievements of his art were determined by moments of awful daring.
James Longenbach
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Books and IdeasMay 18, 2011
An Imperfect Life: On George and W.B. Yeats
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.
James Longenbach
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BiographyJune 16, 2010
Ardor and the Abyss
Emily Dickinson’s reclusiveness was a way of protecting the world from herself.
James Longenbach
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PoetryAugust 26, 2009
A Music of Austerity: The Poetry of Wallace Stevens
In his best poems, Wallace Stevens makes deprivation feel seductively like plenitude.
James Longenbach
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June 10, 2009
Letters
Greider: An American Dream
Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.
William Greider, Our Readers and James Longenbach
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BiographyApril 15, 2009
This Small Extravagance: The Life of Shakespeare’s Mind
Writing a biography of the mind of Shakespeare is a challenge that requires the ingenuity of an artist.
James Longenbach
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PoetryNovember 6, 2008
Between Reticence and Revelation: Bishop’s and Lowell’s Letters
Reading the letters of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop.
James Longenbach
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PoetryJanuary 24, 2008
A Test of Poetry
More than any other American poet, George Oppen begs us to consider the elusive relationship between aesthetic and political responsibilities.
James Longenbach
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CultureJune 1, 2006