“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Michael Gorra
02.17.1957 - PresentMichael Gorra is a professor of English and literature at Smith College, where he has taught since 1985. He is the author of The English Novel at Mid-Century (1990), After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie (1997), The Bells in Their Silence: Travels through Germany (2004), and Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece (2012).
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