This is Part 2 to the series on Keats’ “Ode to a Grecian Urn”. Part 1 can be found here. Chapter II: What is Poetry? The yearning for...

An object is perfect, when everything manifold in it accords with the unity of its concept; it is beautiful, when its perfection appears...

T.S. Eliot means many things to many different people. Like Yeats he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. In the academy he numbers among...

In my last essay, I discussed the difference between classical and modernist poetry as a difference of worldviews. Classicism views the...

Classical and modern poetry are inarguably different. Indeed, modernism’s chief boast is its break with classicism and tradition more...