‘I’ll Have It Here’: Jeet Thayil blends the instinctive and incomprehensible in his ...
In a contextual way, the simmering, inventive, and significant poems in Jeet Thayil’s latest poetry collection I’ll Have It ...
London Review of Books3 个月
Political Poems: ‘Station Island’ by Seamus Heaney
Decades later, Heaney worked through competing calls for political engagement and his long-lapsed Catholicism in ‘Station Island’, a poem he described as an ‘exorcism’. A dreamlike reworking of ...
London Review of Books1 年
Political Poems: Andrew Marvell's 'Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland'
In the first episode of their new Close Readings series on political poetry, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at ‘An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland’ by Andrew Marvell, described by ...
The American Conservative6 年
Auden’s Political Poems, Shakespeare’s Songs, and Defining Dystopia
In Daily Beast, Michael Weiss writes about Auden’s political poems and why the poet renounced them: “As early as 1941, the poet had come to renounce some of his most celebrated work from the ...
Blavity on MSN6 个月
Amanda Gorman’s New Poem At The DNC: Here’s What to Know About It
The 26-year-old took the stage during the convention’s third night to debut a new poem, “This Sacred Scene,” an ode to ...