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Having just read POETRY ON & OFF THE PAGE, one of its more invigorating features is its non-literariness. It’s the least academic and professorial work of literary criticism I can remember reading in a long while. I’m assuming it is by conscious design – since it is […]
In Chapter 5 of Ulysses, Leopold Bloom sets out from home to begin his circuitous voyage through Dublin. We read:
By lorries along Sir John Rogerson’s Quay Mr. Bloom walked soberly, past Windmill lane, Leask’s the linseed crusher’s, the postal telegraph
office. Could have given that address too. And past the sailors’ home […]
“Happy families are all alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The famous opening sentence of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina means, of course, that happiness is a boring, unhappiness a challenging, subject to write about. Almost every poet would agree. Death, anxiety, desire, ecstasy, jealousy, despair […]