Monthly Archives: April 2024

a splendid sentence

 

“Schwartz’s poems, especially the later ones, are dated. They groan under a freight of leaden rhymes and — Schwartz had a capacious mind — showy philosophical and literary references, spillover from the overstocked pantry that was his mind.”

— Dwight Garner, “Delmore Schwartz’s Poems Are Like Salt Flicked on the World,” The New York Times, April 8, 2024

review of The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz, edited by Ben Mazer

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

  April 11, 2024

the dangling modifier

 

A native of Langford, Ireland, McNally’s murder has left communities on both sides of the Atlantic “in a state of shock” since the Friday attack.

— “Boyfriend charged in death of ‘sweet, innocent’ Irish beauty stabbed inside NYC pub: ‘We are heart broken’ ,” By Amanda Woods and Alex Oliveira, New York Post, April 2 2024

Is this taught in high school English classes anymore?

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

   April 2, 2024