Features | May-June 2009 Vistas of Perfection A profile of writer James Agee, at Harvard and beyond Montage | November-December 2007 A Poet's Warning In June 1946, Harvard celebrated its long-awaited Victory Commencement. For the first time since the end of the Second World War, alumni and... Features | November-December 2006 Seamus Heaney, profiled by Adam Kirsch One of the most revealing questions you can ask about any poet has to do with his sense of responsibility. To whom or what does he hold himself... Features | March-April 2006 Rereading the Renaissance The only thing most teachers and students of the humanities agree on, it often seems, is that these are troubled times for their field. For a... Features | March-April 2005 The Rebellion of E.E. Cummings Literary critics have found any number of ways to divide writers into opposing teams. Isaiah Berlin distinguished between... Features | November-December 2004 The Hack as Genius Earlier this year, Houghton Library announced one of the most exciting donations in its history: the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr... Features | May-June 2004 The Brahmin Rebel Last year, the publication of his Collected Poems returned Robert Lowell '39 to the center stage of American poetry. From 1946, when he won the... Features | November-December 2001 The "Five-foot Shelf" Reconsidered "On or about December, 1910," Virginia Woolf wrote, "human character changed." Woolf was not referring to a specific event...
