Larry Levis died in 1996, at the age of 49. His posthumously published poetry forms a towering body of work

In the Victorian era, discoveries upended humanity's place in the cosmos. Tennyson turned this metaphysical crisis into poetry

Undoing as Remaking: How Abraham Lincoln Drew Poetry and Power from His Suicidal Depression

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Open Thread

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We associate confessional poetry with Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton. But Larry Levis’s confessionalism was different

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Freud died almost 90 years ago. His reputation has gone up and down. Is the jury really still out as to whether psychoanalysis works?

In 1894 a German archaeologist discovered the poetry of Bilitis, a Greek contemporary of Sappho’s. There was just one problem

When Camus died in a car crash, he was carrying a return train ticket. "The greatest proponent of absurdism suffered an absurd death"

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The novelist George Sand dressed like a man, took a male name and went through lovers like a rake. The life and the work cannot be disentangled 

Blue Is the Color of Desire: The Science, Poetry, and Wonder of the Bowerbird

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The Literature of Limits IV: Hinduism, Forms, and the Infinite