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Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt: Some Concluding Thoughts
My life, like everyone else’s in the world, has been completely upended this week. I’ve had to learn how to move all of my classes online and I’ve pretty much stayed in my house for the past week. The worst … Continue reading
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Go, litel bok: Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt
With Lives of the Poets, Michael Schmidt takes up the daunting task of tracing the history of English poetry from the Middle Ages to the present. His engaging style of writing has immediately drawn me into this wonderful book. He … Continue reading
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All Day I Loved You in a Fever: The Poetry of Robert Bly
I was first intrigued by Robert Bly’s poetry when I came across a description of his life and work in Michael Schmidt’s Lives of the Poets. While browsing a used bookshop in New England a few weekends ago, I bought … Continue reading
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Communication in the Midst of Solitude: My Year in Reading—2019
In his essay “On Reading,” Proust writes, “Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.” I try to make reading plans every year but I honestly never know where the year will take me. This … Continue reading
She is the Spider, not the Fly: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
The breadth of Michael Schmidt’s 600 page, 64 chapter book Lives of the Poets is so extensive that he had to make the biographical sketches of each poet rather succinct and brief. But this brevity does not detract from the … Continue reading
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