Winner 2017 Benjamin Franklin GOLD AWARD for POETRY. Winner 2017 MONTAIGNE MEDAL for most thought-provoking books. Major tour de force traces arc of one of mill

The celebrated critic returns to his first love, poetry, with essays on Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Rilke, Eliot, Akhmatova, Celan, Wilde, Graves, Brodsky, Larkin, and

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An example of Poe’s melancholic and morbid poetic pieces, "A Dream Within a Dream" is a poem that pitifully mourns the passing of time. The poet’s own life,