Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy

blüht auf im Lenz und grünt aufs neu.”), his rendition of “On... ” uncannily captures the spirit of Das Lied von der Erde. The m ...

In 2002 the Spenser Society, which regularly sponsors a session or two at the annual Modern Language Association convention, ask ...

line that is the staple of French poetry from the Renaissance to the late nine- teenth century—has been grossly exaggerated. Rou ...

language to language and is potentially translatable. Indeed, says Roubaud, the passage of free verse across frontiers is metric ...

the choice of mathematics, arguably in fundamental opposition to po- etry, is any thing but haphazard.) And there follows the we ...

Les chats puissants et doux, orgueil de la maison, Qui comme eux sont frileux et comme eux sedentaires.^6 Bénabou joins the ¤rst ...

The wood’s decay, the yielding place to new, The old order changeth! blow his wreathed horn! The pentameter does not break into ...

Homophony Two-beer naughty beat shatters equation And so it goes, the famous line being put through such other hoops as “Doubl ...

at random, by opening the recently published Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry and copying out the beginnings o ...

For many years I wanted a child though I knew it would only illuminate life for a time, like a star on a tree; I believed that h ...

other, where sunworshippers, splayed upon towels, appeared sacri¤cial, bodies glazed and glistening like raw ¤sh in the market. ...

That on a wild secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect The landscape with the quiet of the sky. A wh ...

learn from the New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, were inter- ested “not merely in the rhy thmic ®ow of the narra ...

novel’s theme as well: the book deals with disappearances and loss, with oblique reference to the disappearance of Perec’s famil ...

psalms: Kant and Kaf ka, Marx and Marat. A law as harsh as a fatwa bans all paragraphs that lack an A as a standard hallmark. CH ...

CHAPTER U for Zhu Yu Kultur spurns Ubu—thus Ubu pulls stunts. Ubu shuns Skulp- tur; Uruk urns (plus busts), Zulu jugs (plus tusk ...

ness and gentility, E is the language of stress, of wretchedness, dejected- ness, and the deepest regrets, which are invariably ...

are no hard and fast divisions between their values. Be vigilant, this poetic sequence tells us; don’t fall into the sorcerer’s ...

den. A perfect plot in the massing of time, lost already walking. Faced with the seemingly inexhaustible pool of translations in ...

Some emphasize the darkness of the wood, others the darkness of the speak- er’s consciousness, unable as she is to ¤nd the strai ...