TWO POETS
At the time when this story opens, the Stanhope press
and the ink-distributing roller were not as yet in
general use in small provincial printing establishments.
Even at Angouleme, so ...
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The French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was the first writer to use fiction to convey the total social scene prevailing within one country at a particular period in its history. Common...
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Had Balzac been a less masterful novelist, the disreputably profligate fraud in him might have overwhelmed his artistry. Still, the other Balzac, the artist, is tainted by his well-earned reputation f...
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"God bless them, they were so young, with their hair down to their shoulders and carrying all those books.” This wistful observation comes from an aging, drunken, failed poet in The Savage De...
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The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, by Donald Hall. Houghton Mifflin, 258 pages, $23.Jane Kenyon died in the morning 10 years ago, at three minutes before the 8 o'clock news, with he...
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It was one of my first online dates. We were slogging through the early stages of an awkward conversation over coffee; I confessed that I was new to this process and wasn’t very good at it. &...
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Two Poets
Honoré de Balzac
Honore de Balzac
Bola\'96o Returns, With Youth, Decay, Revolution
