William Wordsworth

Dec 9, 2024 | poetryfoundation.org | William Wordsworth

Blake was Kristofferson’s favorite at the University of Oxford, where the young Texan read English. He was a Rhodes Scholar, even though he admitted in his application “I do not consider myself very scholarly, and I do not think I would like a life of undiluted study.” He left before his third year, in 1960, to fly helicopters for the US military. When West Point offered him a job teaching English literature, he about-faced yet again.

Oct 6, 2024 | buttondown.com | Anne Sexton |Conrad Aiken |W. H. Auden |William Wordsworth

October 6, 2024 Welcome back to Culture Club, a feature where David and I write about what we’ve been reading, watching, playing, and listening to, for paid subscribers. BECOME A PAID SUBSCRIBERQuite early in my life, at seventeen, I set myself the task of memorizing one hundred poems. I was in the first graduating class of a small, weird school, where they allowed us to do “senior projects.” That was mine.

Apr 18, 2024 | nybooks.com | Frank Bidart |Kay Redfield Jamison |Robert Lowell |William Wordsworth

The Heart Is Strange: New Selected Poems by John Berryman, edited and with an introduction by Daniel Swift The Dream Songs by John Berryman, with an introduction by Michael Hofmann 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman, with an introduction by Henri Cole Berryman’s Sonnets by John Berryman, with an introduction by April Bernard

Apr 18, 2024 | bilibili.com | William Wordsworth

Daffodils 水仙花 by William Wordsworth i wander'd lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills when all at once i saw a crowd a host ofgolden daffodils Beside the lake, beneath the trees Fluttering（混flatter奉承） and dancing in the breeze Continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way They strech'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay Ten thousand saw i at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly活泼 dance The waves beside them danced, but they Out-did the...

Mar 27, 2024 | timesnownews.com | William Wordsworth |Shreya Kachroo

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