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Rachel Hadas

Rachel Hadas is Board of Governors Professor of English at Rutgers University–Newark. She is the author of Poems for Camilla, as well as new verse translations of Euripides's two Iphigenia plays, among other works.

Elizabeth Bishop and Louise Crane

Questions of Inspiration

Should we try to see the poet in her poetry?

by Rachel Hadas | Monday, December 02, 2019
One April Day

One April Day

A death, a book, an art show, and a promise of magnolia blossoms

by Rachel Hadas | Monday, June 04, 2018
Waiting With Kipling

Waiting With Kipling

Kim, the Stoics, and the voices from my past

by Rachel Hadas | Monday, December 05, 2016
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Teach the Book, Not About The Book

by Rachel Hadas | Monday, July 25, 2016
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To Feel and Keep the Eyes Open

by Rachel Hadas | Monday, March 24, 2014
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Anything Goes

Prose for the people

by Rachel Hadas | Monday, September 08, 2014

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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