She called herself Vincent, she smoked cigarettes, and she wore shimmery golden evening gowns when she read her poetry to sold-out crowds. Edna St. Vincent Millay was the emblem of the “New.
This sonnet reflects on the autumn of life and an intimate love, and it turns on that love growing stronger in and through its age, even as the body decays. To learn.
To read Hayden’s poem, click here. Thanks to W.W. Norton & Company for granting us permission to read this poem. Reginald Dwayne Betts’s introduction to the Collected Poems of Robert Hayden is.
In this episode, we provide a close reading of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116, which allows us to consider the poem’s definition of a love that is enduring. In addition, though, we consider.
Countee Cullen was a major voice of the Harlem Renaissance. Joined by the renowned cultural critic Gerald Early, we here examine together story of Countee Cullen and the astounding sonnet that opens.
Robert Hayden was one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century. His poems are known for their formal grace and his deep and broad explorations of the African American experience..
In this episode, we talk with Vince Sherry about two poems of WWI: Rupert Brooke’s “The Soldier” and Ivor Gurney’s “To His Love.” The first poem, a stately beauty, imagines war almost.
Pied Beauty Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape.