I didn’t know, when the Contemporary Poetry Review published my essay review on Daryl Hine this January, that the poet was in ill health, and certainly couldn’t guess that he would die within a year of that piece appearing.… continue reading...One...
This passage is well imitated by Roscommon in his Essay on Translated Verse. The first great work, (a task perform’d by few) Is, that _yourself_ may to _yourself_ be true: No mask, no tricks, no favour, no reserve! _Dissect_ your mind, examine ev’ry _nerve_. Whoever vainly on...