Tagged: theory
Why Do You Read Poetry?
Why do you read poetry? It’s not often I get asked this particular question, but it was posed the other night and I had to seriously think before I could answer. The...
The Critic Doublethink
Don’t you know that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? George Orwell, 1984
A Poet Cannot Just
Exist, Be God, Write Roland Barthes says that the Author is Dead in his essay of the same name. You may be horrified by the notion, but I promise you that it isn’t quite...
