Eager Imagination

In section two of "The Walls Do Not Fall," H.D. sets up a stark contrast between good and evil: "Evil was active in the land,...

"Death by Water," Section IV of "The Waste Land," is by far the shortest individual section of the poem, but it seems in...

Cyrena N. Pondrom's "T.S. Eliot: The Performativity of Gender in The Waste Land " is a very useful and provocative essay, but ...

It is especially provocative to read the following quote from Eliot's essay "The Metaphysical Poets" when considering how frag...

The Waste Land is a complex and allusive poem. As Eliot's notes indicate (and an avalanche of scholarship confirms), a full reading of ...

In his "Field and Forest," Randall Jarrell strips man of civilization in order to get down to the root of instinct. The agricultu...

Randall Jarrell is particularly interested in the intersection of the self and the social world. In "90 North," he takes the conc...