Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Saturday, June 8, 2024

73 poems by e e cummings

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  poetry:to me is about passing images that sometimes stick but often pass by only to return un:announced when le ast expected  ...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

United States - Essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal.

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I remember watching Gore Vidal on television, usually on one of those talk shows he seems to view with contempt. He seemed to be a living op...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

Shelley by Jon Addington Symonds

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Consider these elements. A young, rich and gifted man is obsessed with revolutionary idealism. He attends prestigious schools and the most p...
Tuesday, April 5, 2022

The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt

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John Galt published his Life of Lord Byron in 1830, just six years after the poet's death in Missolonghi, in what is now modern Greece a...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Time Regained by Marcel Proust

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All we have is the present. Our future, if it might exist, is a mere proposition of whose eventual reality none of us can be sure, may only ...
Thursday, December 2, 2021

Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag

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  Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag was first published in 1961. It is hard in 2020, to accept that this was almost 60 years ago, espec...
Saturday, January 16, 2021

Mary Swann by Carol Shields

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I have just completed four years of thinking through a project. There were several false starts, many rejected, some reworked ideas. What I ...

Last Stories by William Trevor

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Painters know that the viewer’s gaze can be tricked. Perhaps led is the better word, for this deception’s aim is merely to communicate more ...
Monday, December 21, 2020

The Master of Petersburg by J M Coetzee

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J M Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg had a particular effect on this reader in that it prompted me to read From The House of the Dead by D...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

The Life of Ezra Pound by Noel Stock

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A review of The Life of Ezra Pound by Noel Stock must begin by acknowledging the phenomenal achievement of its author. It is comprehensive,...
Friday, October 12, 2012

One Hundred Best Books by John Cowper Powys

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In his One Hundred Best Books, John Cowper Powys confidently selects a reading list for all humanity. Written in 1916 by a man already in hi...