Abortion
Astrophil and Stella 63: O Grammar rules O now your virtues show
If You Were Being Courted by Sir Phillip Sidney
Teasing, Flirting, and Courting
At the Fishhouses
Ferry, Bishop, Yeats
What is "Great"
Building Up to the Immeasurable
What is "Great"
“Cold dark deep”
What is "Great"
“At the Fishhouses”: The Ascent
What is "Great"
Chard Whitlow
The Negative of an Image
Kidding and Tribute
“Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Evening Postscript”
Kidding and Tribute
Chemo Side Effects: Memory
The Opposite of Freedom
Freedom & Meaning
Epistle to Miss Blount: On Her Leaving the Town After the Coronation
Epistolary Teasing
Kidding and Tribute
Eros Turannos
The Uneven Bars
Form as a Quality
Ballad to the Ballad Power
Form as a Quality
Fine Knacks for Ladies
Downland’s Response to the Sonnet Tradition
Music and Poetry
Both Poem and Song: John Dowland’s “Fine Knacks for Ladies”
Music and Poetry
Four Quartets
The Negative of an Image
Kidding and Tribute
Gilgamesh
Ferry, Bishop, Yeats
What is "Great"
Gilgamesh: Tablet I, Part ii—The Double
What is "Great"
Gilgamesh: Conviction
What is "Great"
A Great Translation
What is "Great"
Ginza Samba
Robert Pinsky: “Ginza Samba”
Music and Poetry
God's Grandeur
Hopkins: “God’s Grandeur”
Freedom & Meaning
His Excuse for Loving
Ben Jonson: “His Excuse for Loving”
Music and Poetry
Holy Sonnet
John Donne, II: Specious Arguments Leading to Reality
Teasing, Flirting, and Courting
John Donne, I: Thinking in the Sonnet
Teasing, Flirting, and Courting
How many paltry foolish painted things
Courtship Games, II: “In my immortal song”
Teasing, Flirting, and Courting
How We Heard the Name
Singing, Junk and Drunk
Freedom & Meaning
I shall forget you presently my dear
Millay: “I shall forget you presently, my dear”
Teasing, Flirting, and Courting
Jabberwocky
“Jabberwocky”: Sense = Nonsense
Freedom & Meaning
Michelangelo: To Giovanni da Pistoia When the Author was Painting the Vault of the Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo Meets O’Hara
Difficulty and Pleasure
The Joy of Kvetching
Difficulty and Pleasure
Now Winter Nights Enlarge
Singing, Junk and Drunk
Freedom & Meaning
Read in my face a volume of despairs
Courtship Games, I: “A volume of despairs”
Teasing, Flirting, and Courting
Sailing to Byzantium
Ferry, Bishop, Yeats
What is "Great"
“Of what is past, or passing, or to come”
What is "Great"
The Best Kind of Memorization
What is "Great"
Sea Rose
“You Are Caught in the Drift”
Form as a Quality
H.D. and Ben Jonson: Intense Rhythms
Form as a Quality
Sonnet 129: The heav'n that leads men to this hell
Shakespeare 129: “The heav’n that leads men to this hell”
Teasing, Flirting, and Courting
Sonnet in Search of an Author
“A Sonnet Might Be Made of It” and Authenticity
Teasing, Flirting, and Courting
Williams: Teasing the Teasing
Teasing, Flirting, and Courting
The Hearts
Robert Pinsky: “The Hearts”
Music and Poetry
The Lover
Montagu: “Champagne and a chicken”
Teasing, Flirting, and Courting
The Students
Halliday: “The Students”—Free to Jabber
Freedom & Meaning
Almost Flippantly
Freedom & Meaning
Those Winter Sundays
“The Sound of Poetry” By Jay Anania
Form as a Quality
Thoughts About the Person from Portlock
“Thoughts About the Person from Portlock”
Kidding and Tribute
To a Poor Old Woman
Frost: “To Earthward”
Form as a Quality
Williams: “a solace of ripe plums”
Form as a Quality
To Earthward
Frost: “To Earthward”
Form as a Quality
Williams: “a solace of ripe plums”
Form as a Quality
To Waken an Old Lady
Understanding or Interpreting?
Difficulty and Pleasure
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field one Night
Whitman: “Vigil Strange”
Form as a Quality
Why I Am Not a Painter