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Book Review: Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford
“…there are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade’s End is one of them.” ~W.H. Auden When I was in college, I had to make a choice one semester between taking Romantic...
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Quicklist 15 Authors – A Challenge
A high school classmate posted the following on Facebook: 15 Authors in 30 seconds. Rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First...
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Book Review: Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
A poor scan of a great cover There remain hundreds of books on my reading “to do” list, yet sometimes I find myself re-reading an old favorite. With poetry this is a fairly straight forward venture. I...
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Book Review: The Government of the Tongue by Seamus Heaney
This is the second book review in the series “Poets on Poetry.” The first book reviewed in this series was Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-88 by Donald Hall. Seamus Heaney’s strength as a critic is...
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Book Review: Essays and Introductions by W.B. Yeats
This is the third book review in the series “Poets on Poetry.” Reviews of books in this series can be found at “Poets on Poetry.” In my mid-twenties, I spent a year reading all of Yeats books that I...
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Book Review: Homage to Robert Frost by Brodsky, Heaney, and Walcott
This is the fourth book review in the series “Poets on Poetry.” Reviews of books in this series can be found at “Poets on Poetry.” Robert Frost is the most American of all American poets. He is...
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Book Review: Can Poetry Matter by Dana Gioia
This is the fifth book review in the series “Poets on Poetry.” Reviews of books in this series can be found at “Poets on Poetry.” Dana Gioia began his literary career as an outsider. Like two poets he...
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Book Review: “On Poetry and Poets” by T.S. Eliot
This is the sixth book review in the series “Poets on Poetry.” Reviews of books in this series can be found at “Poets on Poetry.” According to an article at Wikipedia, Eliot is “arguably the most...
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Poetry Review: The Dyer’s Hand by W.H. Auden
This is the seventh book review in the series “Poets on Poetry.” Reviews of books in this series can be found at “Poets on Poetry.” More than any poet, I associate Auden with mountains because that is...
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300 Posts, 300 Books I Am Glad I’ve Read
Today’s posting marks the 300th post on MontanaWriter, a nice round number. Round numbers are hard to resist. There is a something complete and satisfying in their shape… in what they symbolize: the...
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