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Memo to T.S. Eliot: In Boston, April Is the Coolest Month
We all remember The Waste Land, right? APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Except right now, as the hardchilling staff sits on our porch, we desire a … Continue reading →
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Ambrose Bierce and Gerard Manley Hopkins: Writers Famous for Not Being Famous
You can argue with the politics of The Weekly Standard all you want, but the magazine’s Books, Arts & Society section is almost uniformly superb. Two recent examples are reviews of writers who failed to achieve fame in their lifetimes – … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Andrew Ferguson, bartleby.com, Books Arts & Society, Edward Short, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poetry Foundation, Richard Watson Dixon, The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Devil's Dictionary, The Weekly Standard, The Windhover
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