Lloyd Mifflin

I confess I’d never heard of the Pennsylvanian sonneteer Lloyd Mifflin until recently. He has a goodly number of poems on classical subjects. The foll

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Ars Poetica

Archibald MacLeish’s short Ars Poetica ends with the rather famous following two lines: A poem should not meanBut be.These lines are quoted fairly fre

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Bakhtin Again

In the first part of his review, Eagleton gives a sketch of Bakhtin’s difficult life under the Stalinists. At one point, he writes:Here [in St. Peters

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