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AUSTIN, Texas — The archive of the English poet, journalist and literary critic James Fenton is coming to the Harry Ransom Center at The University of

An editor recommends old and new books.

These are the collected poems of a master whose work includes many of the most compelling, savage, and tender poems in the language. Frederick Seidel is, in ...

In books and articles, he unsparingly scrutinized an American aristocracy that he knew intimately.

Modern English literature has been produced since around the year 1500, and we now have more than six centuries worth, plus American lit, and it’s not as if the tradition

A jeweler appraises a ring, 1960. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. I recently proposed to my girlfriend, and so I spent much of the past few years thinking about engagement rings. In Western culture, at least, the ring has taken on such symbolic significance that we casually and almost exclusively refer to a part of the human body in relation to its function as ring carrier—the one true purpose of the digitus quartus. Spend enough time shopping for engagement rings and one might come to...

Thomas Couture’s The Romans of the Decadence (1847), from the collection of the Fogg Art Museum. (Photo by Art Media / Print Collector / Getty Images) Frederick Seidel is the poet laureate of the enlarged prostate. Most likely he would freely admit it, as the unruly gland appears more than once in the poet’s new Selected Poems, which distills 40 years of appetites shored against the indignities of age. If the lyric poet is traditionally working to “find his voice,” the volume outlines...