More Even Than Southern Presbyterians

In The Finest Critics One Hears The Full Cry Of The Human. They Tell One Why It Matters To Read.

We Read To Find Ourselves, More Fully And More Strangely Than Otherwise We Could Hope To Find.

In Fact, It Is Shakespeare Who Gives Us The Map Of The Mind. It Is Shakespeare Who Invents Freudian Psychology. Freud Finds Ways Of Translating It Into Supposedly Analytical Vocabulary.

We All Fear Loneliness, Madness, Dying. Shakespeare And Walt Whitman, Leopardi And Hart Crane Will Not Cure Those Fears. And Yet These Poets Bring Us Fire And Light.

No One Yet Has Managed To Be Post-shakespearean.