From pantheon to palate
A piled up commentary of poets on poets: Heaney on Mandelstam on Dante. Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), who died in uncertain...
Shorter but longer
This pithy summary of the difference between prose and poetry is as much as Orlando gleans from the convoluted accounts...
This is the world
Keats was one of the most life-loving people you could hope to meet, grasping with all his force every chance...
Ripening writing
In this comment on Zbigniew Herbert's Report from the Besieged City (title of both a poem and a poetry collection),...
A poet’s eye view of the poet
I always liked Ezra Pound's definition of the poet as being the 'antenna of the race'. Here Wallace Stevens enlarges...
The modesty of genius
Humility comes through Keats' letters, though he was also quietly conscious of having something the future would acclaim, even when...
The masonry of verse
A brick-solid image to convey a sense of Anglo-Saxon verse, implying it is precisely constructed and built for the ages. ...
A few words of good advice
A cheerily rhyming analysis of the difference between 'poetry' and 'verse'. I may have managed a few verses here and...
Clay-floored foetor
This humble and humbling triologism is from Seamus Heaney's eloquent commentary on a moving poem by Derek Mahon, 'A Disused...
In celebration of later love
George Eliot noticed a bias in poets' treatment of love, a tendency to say many fine things about its first...
Beautiful thoughts
When Laurie Lee was starting out in life, and was far from being yet an 'author', he had some poems...
The poet as compass
An enigmatic statement, perhaps born of the difficulty of pinning down Odysseus' journey on a real map, although there is...
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