An article remembering the giant Mark Van Doren, Dr. John Senior’s mentor and long-time friend. Thank you to Kirk Kramer for e-mailing this to me, it was a delightful read and lifted my spirits amidst grading student papers. New Criterion, June 2000 Mark Van Doren remembered by Jeffrey Hart Above the columns of Butler […]
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Mark Van Doren Remembered
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Nov 2011
There are more things that are dreamt of
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Oct 2011
I have been stirring things up lately (although I have a history of doing that) here in Phoenix, primarily concerning poetry. I’ve been telling St. John’s College graduates outrageous things like Plato was a poet, and poetry is better than philosophy, and mostly ranting about Beauty in general. But it reminded me of something that […]
Category: ee cummings, It Is What It Is, joyfulness, Metro, Poetry, Senate, Washington D.C.
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Yeats
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Jul 2011
We were the last romantics – chose for theme Traditional sanctity and loveliness; Whatever’s written in what poets name The book of the people; whatever most can bless The mind of man or elevate a rhyme; But all is changed, that high horse riderless, Though mounted in that saddle Homer rode Where the swan drifts […]
Category: Homer, It Is What It Is, Poetic Mana, Poetry, W.B. Yeats
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