Pound’s Metro
by William Logan
A deeper look into In a Station of the Metro reveals much about Pound’s development as a poet.
Features
Jonson for all time
by Paul Dean
On Cambridge University Press’s seven-volume collection of Ben Jonson’s works.
“Poetry & Truth”
by David Yezzi
Poets, like journalists, historians, are after the truth. But what kind of truth, exactly, do we find in poetry?
“Our duty to praise”
by Bill Coyle
On the poet P. J. Kavanagh.
Langston Hughes’s two faces
by Michael Anderson
A new selection of Langston Hughes’s letters shows how the “beloved bard of black America” was caught between the world he was born into and the one his poetry embodied.
Poems
Introduction
by A. E. Stallings
Introduction to a selection from Hesiod’s Work and Days, translated by A. E. Stallings
From Hesiod’s “Work and Days”
by A. E. Stallings
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Reflections
Tintern Abbey
by Anthony Daniels
Tintern Abbey has changed quite a bit from Wordsworth’s day.
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Theater
History lessons
by Andrew Stuttaford
On Churchill at New York’s New World Stages; An Octoroon at Theatre for a New Audience & The Events at New York Theatre Workshop.
Art
Piero di Cosimo in Washington
by Marco Grassi
“Piero di Cosimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florence” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Plains Indians at the Met
by Karen Wilkin
On “The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Exhibition note
by Leann Davis Alspaugh
On “Wifredo Lam: Imagining New Worlds” at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
Exhibition note
by Dominic Green
“The Critique of Reason: Romantic Art, 1760–1860” at Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “between a place and candy: new works in pattern + repetition + motif” at 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery; “Tadasky: Control and Invention, 1964–2008” at D. Wigmore Fine Art & “Breaking Pattern” at Minus Space.
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On James MacMillan’s Piano Concerto No. 3; Jamie Barton and Bradley Moore at Zenkel Hall; Behzod Abduraimov at Weill Recital Hall & more.
The media
Scandal, or lack thereof
by James Bowman
On the thin line between scandal and partisan rhetoric.
Notes & Comments
Campus inquisition
by The Editors
The treatment of John McAdams at Marquette University reveals the newest level of intolerance in the world of higher education.
Meanwhile, at Wesleyan . . .
by The Editors
On the latest initiative out of Wesleyan University.