L ate in his career, the English poet W. H. Auden distilled the whole business of poetry into three pungent lines: “A poet’s hope: to be, / like some valley cheese, / local, b ...
Before the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic in April 1912, crew members kept her steaming along by shoveling coal into her boilers. Now, some of the ...