Here’s my latest post at The Cincinnati Man. The 5 Manliest 20th Century American Poets “Poetry” and “manly” don’t often go together in contemporary imagination, but maybe that’s about to change, since manly men Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman have just teamed up to make a movie named after a poem. Read the rest and [...]
Yesterday, my wife and I took our girls to see Up. The movie was excellent (as attested by its 98% fresh rating at RottenTomatoes.com), but what struck me was the number of themes picked up from the movies of Hayao Miyazaki, the “Japanese Walt Disney.” Miyazaki is probably best known in the U.S. for Spirited [...]
This year is John Milton’s 400th birthday, and Stanley Fish has written a post about Ninth International Milton Symposium in London, which touches on the many things to appreciate about Milton. Here are a couple of good quotes. First, about why Milton matters: Rather than being employed for its own sake, the poetry is always [...]
