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Homage to Sextus Propertius — Peter Drake’s Version
A Song It’s Valentine’s Day, Horace, and I need an ode.It’s the day of lovers, Pindar, and Greekwould be even better than this cold Latin;but perhaps Catullus could warm my hearton this evening devoted…
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Yeats on Friendship
Last evening, when listening to Paul Violi's friends and colleagues and students and admirers read his poems, I thought of the last two lines of Yeats's "The Municipal Gallery Revisited." Here are the culminating…
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Homage to Sextus Propertius — Claire Fuqua’s Version
12 — From the Latin My desire won’t stop fingering its crimeAnd all those noble faces, my good Roman men, all dead?They divide themselves again and again, in their well-read multitudesWhere a tempered hysteria…
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“Salute” by A. R. Ammons
May happiness pursue you, catch youoften, and, should itlose you, be waitingahead, making a clearingfor you from The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons
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William Zinsser welcomes the weekend
William Zinsser, always worth reading, writes a weekly column for The American Scholar. Click here for a sample. Friday is Zinsser day at this intellectually vital magazine named after a crucial essay by Emerson–…
