Nathaniel Rosenthalis

Oct 19, 2024 | the-orb.org | Nathaniel Rosenthalis

And I was, saw the whole city,perpetually under the weather, yes,the place was sick at heart. Greed,we went under. Still, I missthat city, its cramped excuses, its low skyLiving in that city, it was like you had a feverpillar to post, always something new to see,always some new lover around the corner. Where I came from, that wasn’t just sorrow,it was reason itself, to keep your head up.

Jul 26, 2023 | commonreader.wustl.edu | Nathaniel Rosenthalis

It is one of the most clickbaity premises around. “Poetry Died 100 Years Ago,” intones one opinion writer in a 2022 piece for The New York Times, pointing to the publication date of Eliot’s The Waste Land and “modernity” more broadly. Several articles in the past ten years for The Washington Post offer similar gloomy takes, sweeping across economics and government data as well as hot takes on Twitter.