Near where the peasant girl is being raped, and in the same room as another attempt, there stands in the Villa Borghese, a stone David facing a Goliath we can’t see. In a city where the classical and Christian collide, bristle, fizz, and even combine, these galleries, and this sculpture stand out as strange for [...]

My review of the new book Blake and the Bible, from Yale University Press is out in the new issue of Books and Culture and up on the website here: http://www.booksandculture.com/articles/2011/novdec/untothyself.html

If there’s anything that the onset (or is it an onslaught?) of e-books should teach us, it’s that books themselves matter. For the most part, if the publishing industry crashes, I say they deserve it for keeping the public trust so poorly. Case in point: the publication of Michael Dickman’s new book of poems Flies, [...]

  Literary and Poetic Representations of Work and Labor in Europe and Asia During the Romantic Era: Charting a Motif Across Boundaries of Culture, Place, and Time is available now from Mellen Press, featuring a chapter I contributed entitled “Theatricality and Imaginative Failure in Keats.” This chapter is part of a larger project I have in [...]

 Literary and Poetic Representations of Work and Labor in Europe and Asia During the Romantic Era: Charting a Motif Across Boundaries of Culture, Place, and Time is available now from Mellen Press, featuring a chapter I contributed entitled “Theatricality and Imaginative Failure in Keats.”This chapter is part of a larger project I have in mind called [...]