Thick-witted world
Here's an example of the commentary being arguably more poetic than the poem.  Seamus Heaney's essay on Edwin Muir sums...
A great paradox
Heaney tackles the paradox of poetry and other arts, the fact that at one level 'no lyric ever stopped a...
On memorizing poetry
A few years ago I wrote this piece on memorizing poetry. I still memorize poems and regularly revisit those I...
Treat ’em mean to keep ’em keen
This made me laugh, Keats' pithy analysis of the source of English literary brilliance. There are several references in his...
Frank impiety
An incisive summary of the effect of Irish writers on English literature; I liked the English-rose-pruning metaphor and the 'frank...
Quill-driving alien
A foreign writer? A spy reporting on his hosts? A literary martian? I liked this unusual triologism of George Eliot's. ...
The richest of all soils
The use of 'rich soil' to represent fertile ground for writing isn't surprising but this reference to 'decayed literature' is. ...
The art of story-telling
Henry Miller is himself a wonderful writer, and this comment about a critical element of successful story-telling took me by...
Of frantic birds and free human beings
A withering riposte to any attempt at ensnarement or wing-clipping. Mr. Rochester tries to bind Jane to him but soon...
Shoe-button eyes
Banffy's trilogy of novels on the slow but certain self-destruction of the 19th century Hungarian aristocracy includes the figure of...
It happens to the best of them
Isn't it somehow reassuring that even the Steinbecks of the world can have creative meltdowns? Here he describes a play...
Arthur Ransome – cover illustrations
If you've been following WritingRedux, you may have noticed a number of pawky playful gems from Arthur Ransome's children's books....
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