Literary
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Discovering John Ashbery
“And only in the light of lost words/Can we imagine our rewards,” John Ashbery wrote in “The Picture...
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W. H. Auden: The Sea and The Mirror
In one of his early visits to 92nd Street Y, W.H. Auden reads from his long poem, The...
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Wallace Stevens: “Credences of Summer” and “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven”
Wallace Stevens’ first appearance at the Poetry Center was in 1951 and features him reading two of his...
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Thornton Wilder on Emily Dickinson
In November and December of 1950, playwright Thornton Wilder delivered the famed Norton Lectures at Harvard University. He...
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75 at 75: Hermione Lee on Elizabeth Bowen – 1950
Posted on Nov 13, 2014
Elizabeth Bowen was often in America, teaching and lecturing, in the 1950s and... -
75 at 75: A. L. Kennedy on E. E. Cummings
Posted on Jul 18, 2013
So, finally, I get to hear him—the voice that has lived in my...