The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.
Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.
Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.
But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.