The iPhone is a wondrous thing. People rave about it, but would anyone consider writing a poem about it? That's very unlikely. Poetry still exists, but it has been almost entirely subsumed into musical lyrics given to us by the relative few who write the songs we hear. Lyrics can speak to the hea...
Its starts OK but when it reaches Humphrey Davy, I felt it got lost with too much poetry and details of his romantic life, and too little actual science. For example it goes on and on with how Davys wife didn' get along with Faraday, but then Faradays work on electromagnetism, which had without ...
Rich,I know that you're reading this. You have spent your life wondering why nobody except the NYRB has acknowledged your first study, Shelley: The Pursuit. Perhaps you've outdone Ellmann, and you've found the decadeslong hardway: Western society worships Joyce. He was homeless, drunk, blind, pur...