October 25, 2015
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Irrelevance
With the American government sending drones overseas, with our military involved over the past decade in conflict after dirty conflict; with the largest incarcerated population in the world, and […]
March 8, 2015
Patience in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Patience, Hard Thing!” and HBO’s Enlightened
Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem “Patience, hard thing!” is challenging to read, but offers a persuasive argument as to why patience is a virtue. In the first four lines, though, we […]
February 12, 2015
Philia, Agape, and Storge in Greenbaum, Hopkins, and Larkin
In our culture, the word “love” often refers to romantic love. But eros is only one of the four types of love defined by the ancient Greeks, and in the days […]
September 30, 2013
Anachronistic/Comparative/Close Readings: Hopkins and Bogan on the Alchemist
When two master poets take on the same topic—and by this I don’t mean something from among that eternal triad of love, war, and death, but something more specific—the experience […]