Sitemap - 2024 - Mostly Aesthetics
Ancient footsteps, like the motion of the sea
On Free Verse, with Applications to Walt Whitman
"The motive for repeal was prudence not principle"
The Coming of the Reign of Terror, Part 2
Repeal of the Stamp Act; The Declaratory Act.
The Coming of the Reign of Terror
“I’m charged with giving birth to sedition in America”
Declarations and Petitions of The Continental Congress
You might need time to think about all this
“An atmosphere of artistic theory”
Flannery O’Connor for Atheists
Resolves Against the Stamp Act
The Administration of the Colonies
Let Those Flatter Who Fear: American Independence in Verse
Kindly Inquisitors, a Gentle Interrogation
Poetry as Low-Grade Musical Material
Social Experiments, with Joan Didion
The Girls Who Went Away: Poems
An Oration Commemorating the Boston Massacre
Donald Justice on “Meters and Memory”
Short Notes on Winston Churchill
“In Moby-Dick, he swallows Shakespeare…”
He Stared At Me Like No One Ever Had
Adult Encounters with Children's Stories
"Freaky poetical crypto-zoological musings"
Benjamin Franklin Examined at the House of Commons
Music Alone, Music Together, When the Music Does the Talking
Romanticism, II: Art and Politics.
Romanticism, I: Revaluation of Values
Side Note: The Documentary Fallacy Fallacy
Free Indirect Style in The Red Badge of Courage
Evolution and the Dynamics of Technological Change
Custom, habit, and social change: Michael Oakeshott’s conservatism