by Rosemary Gould, leading And Take Upon Us the Mystery of Things: The Poetry of King Lear at Toronto Pursuits 2020 When I was in graduate school, I had the great privilege of teaching as an assistant to the extraordinary Shakespeare scholar, Arthur Kirsch. When I listened to his lecture […]
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TODAY IN LITERATURE – In Praise of Nothing
I am sharing, with his permission, a thoughtful piece by friend, Larry French. Add your thoughts about whether or not nothin’s plenty for you. “Nothing,” in terms of poetic diction, lacks lustre. It is bereft of imagined content. A toneless first syllable, ending in the insipid fricative“th,” lifted slightly by the more […]