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On Imitation
Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit
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Henry Oliver

April 2024

Helen Vendler and the Recognition of Black Poetry.
Reflections on the death of a great critic.
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Andrew Lang and the catawampus of Romance
Evolution in Victorian fairy tales
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Anna McCullough
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Why Falstaff is fat.
Falstaff unimitated, unimitable Falstaff, how shall I describe thee?
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Robert Frost's accidental late start
a biographical fragment
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Ha ha! Ha ha!, Obituary of a quiet life, Internet culture, Black box, Frost, Shakespeare (3x), Zola and the modern novel, teaching poetry…
The irregular review of reviews, vol. V
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On Hope
borrowing happiness from the time to come
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Patricia Highsmith's womb of her own
If you aren’t a great artist, you’ll find out.
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Paul Graham's plain rhetoric
Deceptively simple writing
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Shakespeare's breakthrough in Henry IV
The control of lyricism, the mixture of light and dark, and the realism of lowly characters.
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Is Mary Oliver a good poet?
Uh, yeah she is. “The world offers itself to your imagination.”
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Sex, madness, and death. Elizabeth Jenkins' overlooked masterpiece.
Obscurity in the age of Martin Amis's leather jacket.
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