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In Honor of Richard Ellmann

March 15, 2023 by DAVID M KATZ in Richard Ellmann, David M. Katz, William Carlos Williams

I want to share with you “New Criticism,” a poem of mine, in honor of Richard Ellmann, who was born on this date in 1918.

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March 15, 2023 /DAVID M KATZ
Richard Ellman, David M. Katz, Northwestern University, William Carlos Williams
Richard Ellmann, David M. Katz, William Carlos Williams
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Ned Balbo’s Family Narrative

June 02, 2021 by DAVID M KATZ in Ned Balbo, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Edgar Allen Poe, D.H. Lawrence, Anthony Hecht, New Criticism, New Formalism, Richard Ellmann, Bruce Springsteen, Joni Mitchell

Ned Balbo’s finest lyrics contain vivid fragments of this overarching epic, which amounts to a lifelong quest for identity amid a tangle of secrets, half-truths, and outright fabrications stemming from his adoption.

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June 02, 2021 /DAVID M KATZ
Ned Balbo, William Butler Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, W.H. Auden, Anthony Hecht, New Criticism, New Formalism
Ned Balbo, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Edgar Allen Poe, D.H. Lawrence, Anthony Hecht, New Criticism, New Formalism, Richard Ellmann, Bruce Springsteen, Joni Mitchell
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