“Names don’t translate; a mouth of pebbles,/they slow the language roaring down the page.” – Ange Mlinko’s The Iliad in a Scottish Cemetery derives its infectious energy from being in ...

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Selected poetry of the period 1500-1660 focusing on a single poet (such as Donne or Spenser), a group of poets (such as Donne and the Metaphysicals or Ben Jonson and the Tribe of Ben), or a particular ...