London – Tim Miller

19 Jan 202218 Jan 2022Tim Miller

Anthology: Poems by William Carlos Williams, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Brontë, Alexander Pope, etc. (podcast)

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2 Jan 20221 Jan 2022Tim Miller

Anthology: Is Poetry Important?, & Poems by Emily Dickinson, Shakespeare, Virgil, R. S. Thomas (podcast)

26 Dec 202125 Dec 2021Tim Miller

Anthology: Poems by Amy Lowell, Thomas Hardy, John Donne, Christopher Marlowe, William Cowper (podcast)

19 Dec 202118 Dec 2021Tim Miller

Anthology: Poems by Edgar Lee Masters, Tennyson, Mary Robinson, Henry Wotton, and Walter Raleigh

11 Dec 202110 Dec 2021Tim Miller

Beethoven on His Deathbed (podcast)

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15 Oct 202114 Oct 2021Tim Miller

Poetry & Education in Eighth-Century England (podcast)

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27 Sep 202126 Sep 2021Tim Miller

William Wordsworth: “St. Paul’s” (podcast)

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23 Aug 202010 Aug 2021Tim Miller

The Internet will Get You Too

A post from a few years ago that is worth revisiting: I began this blog in earnest almost six years now, with a post called “Silence in London,” which offered a handful of photos from a recent trip to England. I only made that post, though, because during the trip I left a long comment […]

3 Jul 20209 Aug 2021Tim Miller

Isis in Old Age (story)

Originally published at Bold+Italic It was one of those across the room things, even though the women were both old and long past love, and weren’t even one another’s type. Isis was back at that pub over in Bayswater, the kind chain restaurant London had that served English food to tourists: the interiors dark wood […]

22 Aug 20189 Aug 2021Tim Miller

Silence in London II: The Internet will Get You Too

I began this blog in earnest almost six years now, with a post called “Silence in London,” which offered a handful of photos from a recent trip to England. I only made that post, though, because during the trip I left a long comment on a poetry blog, and found that it made me want […]

14 Jun 201810 Aug 2021Tim Miller

Wordsworth’s 1805 Prelude, Book 7: “This parliament of monsters”

Excerpts from Book 7 of Wordsworth’s 1805 Prelude, on his time living in London. Other excerpts are here. Above all, one thought Baffled my understanding, how men lived Even next-door neighbours, as we say, yet still Strangers, and not knowing each other’s names. Book 7, 117-120 Shall I give way, Copying the […]

18 Sep 20129 Aug 2021Tim Miller

Silence in London

Just back from London, where the hugeness of space and history were hard to ignore. But the experience was always deepest in the smallest space, where something sacred, or just something simply old, could be apprehended intimately, in silence. So that it was not Westminster Abbey, despite its beauty as a space and the unnerving realization […]