"Good fences make good neighbors" comes from Robert Frost's poem Mending Walls which relates to traditions and rituals antedating the Romans. The god of boundaries, which they named Terminus, was not
This new edition of Baudelaire's poetry contains the latest English verse translation of the Flowers of Evil (1861), as well as the six banned poems of 1857 and four additional poems that were publish
To the list of John Updike’s well-intentioned protagonists—Rabbit Angstrom, Richard Maple, Henry Bech—add James Buchanan, the harried fifteenth president of the United States (1857–1861). In what the
