Once upon a midnight dreary, an English professor at Princeton sat in her office, musing over many volumes of forgotten lore about the right way to read a poem. There were handbooks, essays, letters ...

Few things are more daunting to students of language than meter and scansion. The very mention of the words can glaze the eye or quicken the pulse with panic. The impulse of teachers is often to ...

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Q: This latest volume, which is so slim but packs quite a punch, is quite a distillation of your work, isn't it? A: Yeah, I think it is. And I think it's also a kind of departure from earlier books in ...