'Ulysses' and 'The Waste Land' turn 100 this year, and are a reminder of that modernists matter because they taught us the grammar of breaking the rules when a …
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W.H. Auden’s Radical Humanism Was Unwavering
Unlike many prominent poets of his era, W.H. Auden was crystal clear on the need to fight fascism in Franco’s Spain and Hitler's Germany, and he wrote some of …
How Virginia Woolf’s Work Was Shaped By Music
Many of Woolf’s early reviewers noted parallels between her literary innovations and those of contemporary composers, such as Claude Debussy.