AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
In its now distant earliest days National Review regularly included a worthy poem in its Books, Arts & Manners section, the poetry editor then being the master critic Hugh Kenner. Now, after many years, NR is undertaking to do so again.
From its beginning, NR has been attentive to language in its various modes, always seeking "the right word," if I may appropriate here the title of a recent book by William F. Buckley Jr. Poetry has many definitions, but common to most of them is the idea that, because of its formal qualities, poetry puts a special pressure on language. Every word counts. A good poem will not admit imprecision, ...