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Poetry
February 10, 1973
Reed Whittemore
The Family Romance
Dissecting Harold Bloom’s theory of originality
May 8, 1971
Saul Maloff
Waiting for the Voice to Crack
October 16, 1965
Robert Graves
Robert Graves Is Famous For His War Writing, But He Also Wrote Love Poetry
March 23, 1963
Irving Howe
You Probably Haven’t Read Robert Frost’s Best Poems
There's way more to Frost than "The Road Not Taken."
March 23, 1963
Irving Howe
Robert Frost: A Momentary Stay
May 27, 1957
Robert Graves
John Milton Muddles Through
April 1, 1957
Jack LaZebnik
The Case of Ezra Pound
The story of the famous poet's arraignment for treason and confinement to a mental hospital.
May 11, 1953
W.B. Yeats
Maude Gonne (1865-1953)
August 18, 1952
Elizabeth Bishop
Unseemly Deductions
May 12, 1952
John Crowe Ransom
Hardy—Old Poet
June 20, 1949
Douglas Bush
The Vexations of a Poet
On Alfred Lord Tennyson's 206th birthday, a review of his biography from 1949.
August 24, 1942
Lionel Trilling
The Wordsworths
March 3, 1941
John Peale Bishop
The Hours
January 20, 1941
The New Republic
Scientist of Letters
The New Republic's obituary for James Joyce, 1882-1941
October 18, 1939
W.H. Auden
September 1, 1939
September 6, 1939
W.H. Auden
Rilke in English
March 8, 1939
W.H. Auden
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
March 8, 1939
W.H. Auden
In Memory of W.B. Yeats
December 9, 1936
Max Eastman
Pushkin and His English Translators
July 17, 1935
James Daly
Forest Hour

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