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THOUGHTS ON THE CRITICISM OF OTHERS: 1949-2009

The first criticism of my writing, at least the criticism that I remember was in 1949 when I was in kindergarten. I’m sure I received criticism of my writing in the two years before that, perhaps as early as 1947 when I was three and in pre-school, but I have no memories of incoming criticism until, as I say,...

Price found many things about John Keats and his poetry that resonated in his own work and his approach to poetry. Keats had, for example, a sense of service to humanity and devotion to the well-being of the world. Keats probed and questioned these central features of his work in poem after poem. Keats also felt divinely inspired.1 Keats felt that...

ANACHRONISMS

In the century, 1450 to 1550, European society was rapidly transformed.1 The monopoly held by the then dominant institution, the Catholic Church, was placed in serious dispute. Ten million books were produced in the decade Columbus sailed the Atlantic to the New World raising all sorts of questions and doubts about legitimate authority....

My literary activity on the world-wide-web is a personal and quite industrious enterprize. When I can find the time I am engaged in creating across this global internet a tapestry of poetry and prose. At this site, readers will find one of my many journals, diaries or blogs. These various terms are used by various internet sites for a series of posts by...