Is a version of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men that uses the real names of the people. Let us face it. Most people have come to know these famous people through the photographs of Walker Evans. True, in the splendid book, graced with your splendid, sometimes transcendent words, the Evans photographs bear no captions.… Continue reading What the World Needs, Mr. Agee
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Aristotle: History and Poetry
It is, moreover, evident from what has been said, that it is not thefunction of the poet to relate what has happened, but what may happen-what is possible according to the law of probability or necessity. Thepoet and the historian differ not by writing in verse or in prose. Thework of Herodotus might be put… Continue reading Aristotle: History and Poetry
Waiting For Charlemagne 