Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. From those decades, we have fewer than two poems a year, many, like most of his sculptures, unfinished. From his ...

In 1911, two years after Marinetti spawned Futurism, the all-but-unknown Umberto Saba (1883–1957) wrote his own manifesto, which sadly never had the impact of Marinetti’s; it remained unpublished ...

In a poem, a writer uses language, form and structure to present an idea in a new way; the words on the page become a way to communicate between the poet’s mind and the reader's. When reading poetry a ...

The poems of Philip Larkin have had a curious publication history. He produced just three mature collections, The Less Deceived in 1955, The Whitsun Weddings in 1964, and High Windows in 1974. No ...

An inventory of some of the themes included in his huge collection Hesperides, this is also a winning celebration of sheer abundance The Argument of His Book I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and ...