Articles with keyword "poetry"
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Of Circles, Terraces, and Spheres
A little rusty on the Dante you read as an undergraduate? Like to brush up a bit on some points in the Inferno, like that “mal” something?
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The Well-Wrought Textbook
The making of the midcentury English department classic, Understanding Poetry.
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Thieves of Pleasure
A vicious fraternal war rewards Alfonso VI with the artistic and poetic treasures of al-Andalus.
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Recluse At Court
From a chapter on art in the Yuan Dynasty, written by James Cahill in the NEH-supported 1997 reference work Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting (Yale University Press).
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A Poet’s Inner Eye
A literary scholar looks for Elizabeth Bishop in the fishing waters of Florida.
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British Modernism’s Many Manners
The Bloomsbury group broke ties with Victorian ideals and reimagined British art.
