Articles By Eric Ormsby
January/February 2012
Review of new poetry from Carol Ann Duffy, Derwent May, W.G. Sebald and Tomas Tranströmer
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July/August 2011
Book review of Dante in Love by A.N. Wilson
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May 2011
This Victorian versifier has always been an acquired taste, even to his contemporaries. But today, his prolific output is barely read at all — and we are poorer for it
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May 2011
Acclaimed poet Paul Muldoon may be a dazzling wordsmith, but his verse is all style and no substance
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January/February 2011
Book Reviews: New & Collected Poems, by U. A. Fanthorpe; How Snow Falls, by Craig Raine; and Late Poems, by Anthony Thwaite
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May 2010
The "unabashedly elitist" elegist of England is an ideal candidate for the Oxford Professorship of Poetry
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April 2010
True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell under the Sign of Eliot and Pound by Christopher Ricks
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December 2009
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch and A New History of Early Christianity by Charles Freeman
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April 2009
Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation by Tariq Ramadan
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January 2009
The Arabian Nights translated by Malcolm C. Lyons with Ursula Lyons, introduced and annotated by Robert Irwi
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July 2008
Each new translation of Islam’s most sacred text offers fresh insights into its meaning. Yet there are still surprises in a book that is not only hard to read, but hard to know how to read, even for Muslims
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About Eric Ormsby
Eric Ormsby's Fine Incisions: Essays on Poetry and Place appeared in January. The Baboons of Hada, a new selection of his poems, has just been published by Carcanet.
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