Bradstreet shifted to lyrical poetry where once she wrote long form in Du Bartas imitation.
Ben Sears
Ben Sears is a writer and restaurant guy in Birmingham, Alabama. He lives quite happily across from a creek with his wife, two sons, and an obligatory dog. You can follow him on Twitter and read his blog, Might Stain Your Shirt.
We’ll never recreate hers, but this lamb tasted enough like Mom’s without being so close as to...
Gogarty cried “I can take care of the menagerie!” and started shooting cans and tins of...
I’m off for Louisiana for a crawfish boil despite my allergy to crawfish. It’s a five...
Much of George Gascoigne's poetry is very good, but the man himself is fun, one of those...
Per the Constitution, a barking madman elected to the presidency is a barking mad president. That’s for...
Abercrombie was known for big dramatic pieces that read like plays, plays more so than poetry, and...
Dryden didn’t exactly cover himself in glory picking on Flecknoe as he did, publishing four years after...
What was Zelenskyy trying to do?
Chaucer is assumed to have died in 1400...I say assumed, because there were no dates on his...
Financially and domestically, promise and hope were dashed. The world did not unfold as hoped. He wrote...
From what I’ve read, Hunt seems fun loving, blithe, and inconsiderate, but not malicious. Impish.
Young and tragic opens doors. Today he’s considered one of the greatest poets in the English language.
For those who want to take on Leviathan and raise hell about any and every thumb messing...
All the references to Welsh habit, Welsh ways, all the references to Wales and Welshness.
It’s important to know that running on automatic, acting without thought is something we are capable of.
I found “Beauty Extoll’d” as an alternate title so I put it in brackets, but Hecht says...
An adventuring war correspondent with a predilection for ladies of the night and a life-long love of...
I tried to give the new poem an unbiased look, but was bothered in the first sentence....
It’s true that he didn’t enjoy writing much of what he produced, but the needs of his...
