F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

are as simple as Mother Goose rhymes compared to The White Goddess. Subtitled “a historical grammar of poetic myth,” the book would easily provide a term’s work for advanced students of ...

(Abrams Fanfare) Here’s the first problem: “Nothing rhymes with ‘pterodactyl ... t sure whether he’s a muse or an appetizer. Tom Angleberger’s book, packed with expressive, cartoony ...

"But I think without reproducing the rhymes, you're certainly ... a young Dante falling in love with his muse, Beatrice, who dies in the middle of the book. Sponsor Message "To me, the Vita ...

Maggie Millner’s first book, “Couplets,” breathes new life ... But she’s also Donne. Muse, beloved, reject, author: All become one. The “Proem,” or preface, begins, “I became myself ...