Tag Archives: poetry

Questions Worth Asking (Maybe) – Poetry, paint and mysterious art edition

Posted on November 24, 2020 by Ralph Hanson

Why does Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming” resonates so strongly now? Poynter Institute’s Roy Peter Clark agues that’s because it always resonates. (And I would argue Auden does, too.) Yeats wrote "The Second Coming" while his wife was recovering from … Continue reading →

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Media Tweets: Joseph Maguire Edition (with a T.S. Eliot shout out)

Posted on September 26, 2019 by Ralph Hanson

A brief roundup of media news on the Twitter machine. The main focus today is on talk about Acting Intelligence Chief Joseph Maguire’s testimony because the House Intelligence Committee: Reminder: It was the Wall Street Journal that broke this story … Continue reading →

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Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” Printed this day in 1845

Posted on January 29, 2018 by Ralph Hanson

Today is the anniversary of the publication of what may be Edgar Allan Poe’s best known work, the narrative poem The Raven. It was printed on this day in 1845 in the New York Evening Mirror. The poem tells of a young … Continue reading →

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Thinking about W. H. Auden on a morning in early winter

Posted on December 15, 2016 by Ralph Hanson

I have been on sabbatical this semester after stepping down as the department chair and becoming a regular professor.  I’ve been working on a variety of projects this fall – finishing up work on ancillaries for the Sixth Edition of … Continue reading →

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