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Emily Wilson C.S. Lewis’s Lost Aeneid: Arms and the Exile Edited by A.T. Reyes (Yale University Press, 208 pp., $27.50) In 1945, in a famous lecture called “What is a Classic?,” T.S. Eliot described Virgil as the most truly classical of all poets, on the grounds that his work supposedly exe......

By Adam Thirlwell Illuminations By Arthur Rimbaud Translated by John Ashbery (W.W. Norton, 167 pp., $24.95) I. Arthur Rimbaud wrote the texts known as Illuminations between around 1873 and 1875. In those years he lived in London, and in Paris, and at home with his mother and sisters in n......

by Keith Gessen from New Yorker In the fall of 1963, in Leningrad, in what was then the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the young poet Dmitry Bobyshev stole the young poet Joseph Brodsky’s girlfriend. This was not cool. Bobyshev and Brodsky were close friends. They often appeared, in alpha......

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For whatever reason, I woke up today with a list of the 10 greatest American poems in my head that had been accumulating through the night. Every list is subjective, and of course the use of "greatest" even more so - but these are not just "favorite" poems. I've been thinking abo......

Charles Simic * The Collected Poems by C.P. Cavafy, translated by Evangelos Sachperoglou Oxford, 238 pp, £9.99, September 2007, ISBN 978 0 19 921292 7 * The Canon by C.P. Cavafy, translated by Stratis Haviaras Harvard, 465 pp, £16.95, January 2008, ISBN 978 0 674 02586 8......

Peter Perdue, Professor of History

What was the poet's friend, who inspired In Memoriam, really like? T. S. Eliot’s famous summary of In Memoriam was that Tennyson’s poem “is not religious because of the quality of its faith, but because of the quality of its doubt”. Such quality is not always distinguishable from quantity. “I......

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