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Cavafy: ‘Mourning the Memory, the Aura of Our Days’

January 09, 2022 by DAVID M KATZ in Cavafy, William Butler Yeats, W.H. Auden

Cavafy’s “Trojans" does a good job of echoing our current sense of dread.

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January 09, 2022 /DAVID M KATZ
Cavafy, William Butler Yeats, W.H. Auden
Cavafy, William Butler Yeats, W.H. Auden
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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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