In “The Shield of Achilles,” W.H. Auden created a masterwork in poetry, integrating his views of the spiritual and natural worlds.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
1 Art Whatever you might think about a certain television network’s coverage of the London Olympic games, it’s been outright brilliant next to history’s treatment of art as an Olympic sport. Art competitions were a part of the games in the early twentieth century, until they fell apart over distinguishing amateur from professional. Judges couldn’t […]