First Known When Lost

In a recent post I suggested that we might wish to consider what our epitaph will be.  Another way of looking at this sort of thing may be:...

In my previous post, I suggested that Tu Fu's " Thoughts while Travelling at Night " is the most famous on-board-ship poem of ...

Chinese poets of the T'ang Dynasty (618-907) were fond of writing poems while on journeys.  Many of the poets were government officials,...

Well, as I said in my previous post, when I think of Robert Frost, I'm apt to think of Edward Thomas, and vice-versa.  And, sure enough,...

Long-time readers of this blog may have noticed that, when Robert Frost's name comes up, I am likely to think of Edward Thomas.  And vic...

I would like to stay with the subject of the wind in the leaves a moment longer by considering a poem by Robert Frost.  Frost visited the im...

Today was blustery, and along the road I walked I could see and hear the green " unresting castles thresh ."  I know full well tha...

"Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy."  So wrote Ludwig Wittgenstein.  (The statement appears in his  Not...

Although I am quite fond of the following poem by Mary Coleridge (1861-1907), I have never known quite what to make of it.  Some might say t...

I suspect that, at one time or another, each of us has felt the "world-strangeness" that William Watson (1858-1935) writes of in t...