Category Archives: Poetry 16th-20th Century

Just in time for our read­ing of the Son­nets (and their adja­cent mys­tery of the ded­ic­a­tion, and Mr. W.H., and was Shakespeare gay or not, or maybe not Shakespeare at all?) Roland Emmerich has pub­lished the trail­er for his upcom­ing … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

Twen­ti­eth-cen­tury lan­guage for describ­ing sexu­al beha­viour (and even our tend­ency to pri­or­it­ize sex as a lead­ing human drive) does not fit the beha­viour, or (which is all we have) the rep­res­ent­a­tions of beha­viour of six­teenth-cen­tury males. No one in the … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

Here’s a poem by E.E. Cum­mings I would have loved to include in the com­ing ter­m’s course read­er but could­n’t … but which I con­sider one of my favour­ites! Love’s func­tion is to fab­ric­ate unknown­ness (known being wish­less but love … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

Well, here we are, the sur­viv­ors of yet anoth­er Valentine’s Day. And Lapham’s Quarterly has decided to bless us with a splen­did essay on the sym­bol­ism of the heart through his­tory, which coin­cid­ent­ally ends up being a his­tory of the … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

A ver­it­able smor­gas­board of deli­cious tit­bits, a sample of sheer delights! For the poetry lov­er, romantic, pas­sion­ate, dreamy, funny or oth­er­wise, I hope this will be not merely the place to look for details of upcom­ing course read­ings, but a … Con­tin­ue read­ing →