History vs. Nature
September 22, 2008 · Magazine, John Felstiner, Books and Arts
"I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree."
Literary Scholar and Translator
John Felstiner
3 articles 2006–2008
John Felstiner was a professor of English at Stanford University and a renowned literary scholar and translator, known especially for his work on Paul Celan and Pablo Neruda. He contributed essays to The Weekly Standard between 2006 and 2008, exploring themes at the intersection of poetry, nature, and history.
Nature vs. Man
May 28, 2007 · Magazine, John Felstiner, Books and Arts
Not Man Apart. For a 1965 Sierra Club photo book, the environmental activist David Brower took this title from Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962). A mind-cleansing rightness strikes home if we hear those three spare words, "Not Man Apart," the way they actually occur. Praising "Organic wholeness, the…
Poet by Nature
November 13, 2006 · Magazine, John Felstiner, Books and Arts
"He reminds us that words are alive, and not only alive but still half-wild and imperfectly domesticated."