Transforming Nature with James Schuyler
Carl Phillips explores James Schuyler’s poem “The Bluet,” revealing “a thanksgiving of sorts, for friendship itself, for human company.”
Carl Phillips explores James Schuyler’s poem “The Bluet,” revealing “a thanksgiving of sorts, for friendship itself, for human company.”
Carl Phillips examines how a poem by John Clare conveys “sensitivity to wilderness and the human ability to reason about it.”
Carl Phillips looks at a 1797 sonnet by Charlotte Smith that explores the desire to escape “a civilization of reason’s making.”
A close look at a poem by Sterling A. Brown that asks us “What happens when hope comes home?” Part 5 of 5 on the theme of home.
A look at the intersection of “the local and domestic” with the global in a poem by Craig Santos Perez. Part 4 of 5 on the theme of home.
…An exploration of the ways in which a poem by Lucille Clifton “casts nets of inclusion and exclusion.” Part 3 of 5 on the theme of home.
An investigation of Maggie Smith’s “homing strategies” in her poem “Good Bones.” Part 2 of 5 on the theme of home.
A close look at Phillis Wheatley’s subversion of Neoclassical poetry in “On Being Brought from Africa to America.” Part 1 of 5 on the theme of home.