January 8, 2017
Happy 100th Birthday, Peter Taylor
It is customary on a writer’s birthday, especially on a date so significant as his 100th, to grant his life and work a few moments of your attention. Today we […]
October 12, 2016
Art History in the Kenyon Review: Reading Erwin Panofsky’s “Renaissance and Renascences” from the Spring 1944 Issue
PhD qualifying exams are a grueling rite of passage for graduate students. I took mine in February for a degree in art history specializing in the Italian Renaissance. I studied […]
November 27, 2015
“Merely in living as and where we live”: Part I
In my previous post, I imagined the thrill of a first encounter with Wallace Stevens’s “Sunday Morning,” which appeared for the first time in Poetry 100 years ago this month, November 1915. […]