Heaven’s Elegist
Alfred Tennyson's poetry addressed the central anxiety of his day: how to live in a world where scientific discoveries were slowly replacing religious faith.
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Alfred Tennyson's poetry addressed the central anxiety of his day: how to live in a world where scientific discoveries were slowly replacing religious faith.
“For some months—since I was told about this award—I have been trying to find the point in my life when this fiction stuff and I became friends. I cannot find it.”
"...a stillness in which the germ of what is not yet palpable pauses and gathers to begin one more time."
We must find and support organizations that respond to this moment and listen to the lived expertise of people often pushed to the margins. Our humanity depends on it.
"One who has dared to be gloriously good and gloriously bad in one life. No Limbo for her. Rather let life itself grow living monuments out of trees and living words so that death...
"Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice."
The private letters of famed literary critic Harold Bloom offer an ethical guide for politics.
"Come with me. I'll teach you the flowers and the stars."
I was a latecomer to poetry, curling my nose at it in that confounding and rather embarrassing way we have of discounting what we don’t understand, dismissing as useless what we do...
Recovering the "forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence" alive in the back of our modernity-deadened minds.
This essay is adapted from Traversal. Sitting in the packed playhouse of the Bowery Theater on Manhattan’s Lower East Side one balmy evening in the summer of 1833 is a teenage boy...
"You may have to break your heart, but it isn’t nothing to know even one moment alive."
"The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, but between the superfluous and the indispensable. Wisdom... is always poised up...
"We must live it, now, a day at a time and be very careful not to hurt each other."
THERE are many reasons for admiring and reading G. K. Chesterton: his wit, his wisdom, his mastery of paradox, his prophetic critique of so many of the absurdities thrown up by mer...
In their poems and essays, Kathleen Jamie and Peter Davidson transcend Scottish sentimentalism and find new points of entry into their shared past.
Cultural commentary can make for absorbing and infinitely entertaining reading, especially when it's being written by this must-read critic.
"I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood."
Seamus Heaney’s complete poems, following on editions of his letters, prose, and translations, confirm the extent of his achievement.
The ironies that affix themselves to the life and literature of Larry McMurtry are best exemplified by the title of his autobiographical meditation on storytelling, Walter Benjamin...
The CUNY Graduate Center faculty, students, alumni, and affiliated artists are exploring the past and present through boundary-breaking poetry and scholarship. To mark National Poe...
Robert P Crease reviews The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief by Richard Holmes The post ‘Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers’: how Alfred Tennyson d...
The country’s first president was a scholar, poet and cultural force whose legacy still shapes modern Ireland.
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