His conversion by Hugh Lane to the French Impressionists led to one of the major controversies of Yeats's life and is one of the circumstances behind the bitterness of his poem ‘September 1913’ with ...
Critical Sociology, Vol. 48, Issue. 4-5, p. 847. African American poetry is as old as America itself, yet this touchstone of American identity is often overlooked. In this critical history of African ...
THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR SONGS RANKED BY POP RADIO AIRPLAY DETECTIONS, AS MEASURED BY MEDIABASE AND PROVIDED BY LUMINATE. Hozier Last week Weeks at no. 1 Weeks on chart A.Hozier-Byrne, D ...
“I don’t know what it means for a species, a people, to grow older. If we are lucky enough to age, perhaps it means we see the line that leads out of our own existence growing clearer. The grief of ...
And a woman spoke, saying, Tell us of Pain. And he said: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in ...
A poem about IKEA helps to lighten the mood, but this is a book shot through with foreboding. The last poem, ‘September Rain’, finds the poet in ‘deep deep water … Out of my depth, waiting’. These are ...