Lit Hum: Haiku Selection

Why Teach English?
The Writer as Reader: Melville and his Marginalia
Chronic interruption means the perpetual incompleteness of human expression. - Stanley Cavell
Crimes Against Humanities
Hamlet: a love story
Every aspect of higher education has been corrupted
Lost in the Meritocracy: Trading an education for a ticket to the ruling class
Against Conceptualism: Defending the Poetry of Affect
Colleges as corporate cities, high schools as credential factories, and lastly, scholarly enclaves
To the English major, life is sweeter, more tragic, more intense
Anyone who can appease a man’s conscience can take his freedom away from him. - Dostoevsky
The influence of 17th-century English poets transcends stylistics
Caring for Your Introvert
The avant-garde: inventors of procedures
Creatively peaking early or late: conceptual vs experimental poets
Frank O’Hara’s "Fired" Self
O’Hara: no shame in the effusive messy truth as the subject for a poem
The decline of American verse
EMV (email virgin)
I think that it is very important to give people an example of irreverence. - Leon Wieseltier
Susan Sontag on Simone Weil
Andrei Tarkovsky’s "Mirror": "This Olympian calm of form"
Garry Wills's views at odds with both the left and right
Emily Dickinson's version of "a sea-change, into something rich and strange"
Culture now as Counterculture
Hart Crane: “Voyages”
How to welcome and nurture the poets and painters of the future
Anne Carson
Anne Carson II
Noam Chomsky
Quotes as mental furniture
Prozac Politics
On Virginia Woolf’s Orlando
Meaning vs happiness
Woolf on Proust
Beckett capturing the ineffability of love
I am not an artist. - Van Gogh
The importance of mind-wandering
Dickinson and Melville operating outside the capitalist market and PR machine
How to Live Without Irony
Philosophy as an Art of Living
On Bach
Philosophy and the Poetic Imagination
The unconscious minds of great artists
The sound of a writer talking his way into existence
An antidote to the age of buzzfeed
Poetry vs the wintry world of the cancer floor
A hybrid vigor, the mongrel over the prebred: George Steiner
A Reader's Advice to Writers
Who Killed the Liberal Arts?
A Critic's Manifesto
How Art Matters
I Don't Know
An Ideal Curriculum
Emerson vs today
Craft vs Theory
Poets and Money
The Liberal Arts as Guideposts in the 21st Century
They free me from the prison of contemporaneity
The unconscious minds of great artists
Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up
The "I" in poetry
Love (III)
The Terrors and Pleasures of Robert Frost
Why the world needs introverts
Bubbledom vs Orphandom
The conditions for great art
Avoiding the visceral messy middle?
Humble, agendaless, secular midrash
From a market economy to a market society
Lincoln & Shakespeare
What Man Has Made of Man
How to fix the current poetry paradigm
The Catastrophe of Success
Education matters, but arts and humanities matter more
Ten paradoxical traits of the creative personality
The Art of Surprise
The electric exuberance of intrinsic validation
Jeanette Winterson
Scorsese on Bergman
John Lennon’s Genius
Loving Reading
Mark Strand
De Kooning Still Dazzles
Van Gogh's Ear
Edward Hopper's Development
Three events that shaped Beckett's genius
Revolutionizing education & learning how to fail
Regrets of the Dying
Dr. King Weeps From His Grave
America Coming Apart I
America Coming Apart II
America Coming Apart III
The Day the Middle Class Died

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