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"One day, on the verge of giving up – March 8th 1914 – I approached a high chest of drawers and, began to write something down on a piece of paper, while standing, as I like to do, whenever possible. And so, taken over by some strange, indescribable kind of trance, I wrote 30 something poems in one stretch. That was the most triumphant day of my life and I will never experience another like it. I began with the title The Keeper of Flocks. And what followed was the birth of someone within me, whom I immediately named Alberto Caeiro. Please excuse the absurdity of the phrase: my master will appear within me. But that was my immediate sensation.”

Recent Submissions

  1. 1. The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis (harpers.org)
  2. 2. Who Is Blake Whiting? (theamericanscholar.org)
  3. 3. The Importance of Being Idle (theamericanscholar.org)
  4. 4. The most-disliked people in the publishing industry (woman-of-letters.com)
  5. 5. The Philosopher and the Tsar (the-hinternet.com)
  6. 6. The Moral Beauty of Middlemarch (plough.com)
  7. 7. Pluralism and the Modern Poet (lrb.co.uk)
  8. 8. Why Literature Needs a Punk Rock Mindset (countercraft.substack.com)
  9. 9. A Famous Enigma: On Alexandre Kojève (clereviewofbooks.com)
  10. 10. Entwinings: Literature and History, Fathers and Sons, Writers and Readers (hedgehogreview.com)

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