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Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a three-part essay. To read the first installment visit this link. Here’s a distinction I try to honor: criticism may sometimes have a professional...

I want to begin this editor’s note with gratitude.

Maps, oh maps! […] sometimes in my sleep, I find myself walking on a map-like space, searching for a place I can at last call my own. But it always...

For any writer, the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge brings moments of painful recognition at every turn. Richard Holmes’s magisterial biography of Coleridge is replete with examples of the Romantic...

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In Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read, critic Terry Eagleton declares: “A critique must establish a certain distance from its object in order to appraise it.”...

“November has come to the forest”

Asking how my criticism relates to my poetry is like asking how my obsessions relate to my compulsions. It’s a question I’m much too glad to answer. I like Jhumpa...

The Waste Land’s afterlife was a self-fulfilling prophecy strategically crafted by Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, two writers who sought to meaningfully connect with what they thought of as the...

I was a poet long before I even knew what a critic was. Children may be taught, as I was, to read poems and to write their own, but nobody...