Forms of Criticism

By Thomas Karshan 1. I want to start by thanking Jonathan and Ross – or, as we might have said forty years ago, and might be more likely to say in America or Germany than in Britain – Professors Kramnick and Wilson – or, as the latter divides himself up in...

Fragments of a New Essay

Fragments of a New Essay Tom Bredehoft      Our sons their fathers’ failing language see,     And such as Chaucer is shall Dryden be,     And Wycherly and Congreve, Behn and Scrope,     Shall prove as fallible as any Pope. It’s a project I don’t know if I even want to...

Language and Poetry: four Verse Essays

Language and Poetry: four Verse Essays by Gary Day   I  A History of Language in Nine Fragments The first articulation created The possibility of silence, and broke Forever with earth’s natural music.  Shapes on stone lightened Into letters that were yoked...