Nature, Or The World, Or Reality, Is

Many Intellectual Heroes In The European Tradition Seem To Find The Great Outdoors A Chilling Prospect - And Its Literary Analogue, The Mythworld, Equally Chilling. As If A World In Which Humans Have No Leverage, And Might Not Be Present At All, Couldn't Be Interesting To Humans.

A Lot Of Poems Seem, In Some Sense, To Pull The Outside World Into The Interior. They Aren't Perhaps Emotion Recollected In Tranquillity But Perception Recollected In Interiority.

With Type As With Philosophy, Music And Food, It Is Better To Have A Little Of The Best Than To Be Swamped With The Derivative, The Careless, The Routine.

Popularity Isn't Just Something That Happens. You Have To Give Something In Exchange For It, And That's The Dangerous Part Of The Process.

Literature In The Written Sense Represents The Triumph Of Language Over Writing: The Subversion Of Writing For Purposes That Have Little Or Nothing To Do With Social And Economic Control.