“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Robert D. Richardson
Robert Richardson is a scholar and the author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire , winner of the Frederic G. Melcher Book Award, and Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind, and William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism. Richardson is the recipient of the Francis Parkman Prize and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, among many other honors.
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