Clik here to view.
STEPHANE MALLARME AND JOHN CROWE RANSOM CLASH IN THE MODERN BRACKET!
A 19th century Frenchman of pure Modernism tries to win against a 20th century American university reformer. MALLARME: French readers, their habits disrupted by the death of Victor Hugo, cannot fail...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NIETZSCHE VERSUS T.S. ELIOT!
NIETZSCHE: In some remote corner of the universe, flickering in the light of the countless solar systems into which it had been poured, there was once a planet on which clever animals invented...
View ArticleClik here to view.
AUGUSTINE AND ADDISON BRING ARGUMENTS TO THE MADNESS
The dashing Joseph Addison, Man of Letters AUGUSTINE: Hence, the word which sounds without is a sign of the word that shines within, to which the name of word more properly belongs. For that which...
View ArticleClik here to view.
MAIMONIDES AND VICO, OH YEA!
Giambattista Vico (b. 1668) seeks to advance against Maimonides (b. 1138) MAIMONIDES: You should not think that these great secrets are fully and completely known to anyone among us. They are not. But...
View ArticleClik here to view.
HOW CAN WE HATE WHEN LOVE SINGS FROM EVERY TREE?
The bird species in most cases Picks a mate for life. A life can be filled with songs and kisses, Joy as far as the eye can see. How can we hate when love sings from every tree? Humans and crawling...
View ArticleClik here to view.
WILDE VERSUS WOOLF
Virginia Woolf: a beauty with an audacious mind. A supreme opponent in Oscar. WILDE: I should have said that great artists worked unconsciously, that they were “wiser than they knew,” as, I think,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
KENNETH BURKE DANCES WITH HELENE CIXOUS
Helene Cixous. A pretty good business: I write woman. BURKE: All the kinds of criticism we have been considering lead back to an ultimate kind, the Criticism of Criticism, which should provide the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
THOMAS AQUINAS DUELS APHRA BEHN
Aphra Behn: worthy opponent of Thomas Aquinas AQUINAS: It seems that the Holy Scripture should not use metaphors. For that which is proper to the lowest science seems not to befit this science,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
HOW MUCH KISSING IS TOO MUCH
How much kissing is too much When the mouth is beautiful? How do we know when beauty is full? How much divinity lives in the tongue When the tongue does not speak? Neither love, nor bodies mild and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
POE VERSUS LESSING!
Gotthold Lessing (b. 1729) elucidated the great differences between painting and poetry. LESSING: The first person who compared Poetry and Painting with each other was a man of fine feeling, who...
View ArticleClik here to view.
WAS THAT YOU
It’s nice to have a nice physique, But face it, a face is what’s unique; We fall in love with one of those, Not with the hands, or somebody’s toes. If you love a voice or verses You might as well...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SCHILLER BATTLES EMERSON IN THE ROMANTIC BRACKET
SCHILLER: I would not wish to live in a century other than my own, or to have worked for any other. We are citizens of our own Age no less than of our own State. And if it is deemed unseemly, or...
View ArticleClik here to view.
POST-MODERN BATTLE: LACAN VERSUS SAID
The great post-Freudian psycho-analyst, Jacques Lacan. LACAN: This passion of the signifier now becomes a new dimension of the human condition in that it is not only man who speaks, but that in man...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SARTRE TAKES ON DERRIDA
Sartre wanted to marry her. de Beauvoir said, no. SARTRE: Each of our perceptions is accompanied by the consciousness that human reality is a ‘revealer,’ that is, it is through human reality that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SCARRIET’S NEW HOT 1OO!!
1. John Ashbery –Still the most respected living U.S. poet 2. Billy Collins –Still the most entertaining living U.S. poet 3. Kenneth Goldsmith –Does the avant-garde still exist? 4. Stephen Burt...
View ArticleClik here to view.
MY CONFIDENCE GREW
My confidence grew As I received praise from you, And now, at last I am free of the past. My poetry moves Even as you love. Formerly, my line Reflected what was mine; Now it holds your symbol And your...
View ArticleClik here to view.
THE BEAUTIFUL DO NOT LIKE POETRY
The beautiful face has nothing to say, It communicates with looks; Poetry can talk for hours; That’s how it gets into books. A beautiful face is called beautiful And that is the end of that; If poetry...
View ArticleClik here to view.
DE BEAUVOIR AND ADRIENNE RICH DANCE IN FIRST ROUND ACTION
DE BEAUVOIR: A sentiment cannot be supposed to be anything. “In the domain of sentiments,” writes Gide, “the real is not distinguished from the imaginary. And if to imagine one loves is enough to be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
THIRTY TOP MASS APPEAL POETRY MOMENTS IN U.S. HISTORY
1. “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe is published in the New York Evening Mirror, January 29, 1845 2. Robert Frost reads “The Gift Outright” at John F. Kennedy’s inaugural, January 20, 1961 3. Martin...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CLEANTH BROOKS LOCKS HORNS WITH HAROLD BLOOM
The owlish Cleanth Brooks. In his eyes, the “process of composition” has nothing to do with “the thing composed.” BROOKS: To make the poem or the novel the central concern of criticism has...
View Article