4th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 22 :: Lauren Neefe on Ezra Pound
[line] On or about August 1996, my character changed: I traded a literary dictator for a cultural pariah. It was the summer before my last year of college, when I decided, god help me, to write an honor’s thesis in English. My
4th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 13 :: Anthony Cappo on William Blake
I. When I first read William Blake in a Romantic Poetry class my junior year of college, it set off immediate shockwaves. I had read the Beats and knew that they were big Blake fans, but had never read any of his
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 22 :: MC HYLAND on WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
So much of the uninteresting poetry that followed him can be blamed on Wordsworth. In the introduction to Lyrical Ballads alone, his insistence on using “a selection of the language really spoken by men” paved the way for a thousand
