Archive for August 1st, 2002

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

Thursday, August 1st, 2002
“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” is one of Whitman’s most anthologized works, and not without good reason. It is one of the shortest, most succinct statements of his poetic vision, but it can also be read as a justification of art itself. It attempts to show how common experiences and our perception of those experiences, as conveyed [...]

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Counterpoint to Walden Pond

Thursday, August 1st, 2002
Poet Seamus Heaney, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature was born in County Derry, 30 miles northeast of Belfast. The eldest of nine children, he became a teacher and a writer who now lectures at Harvard. Heaney earns much praise from fellow writers. American poet Robert Lowell called him the most important Irish poet [...]

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