Posts by: David X. Novak

Claude McKay Walks in Ferguson

Jan, 2015 | by

Claude McKay addresses the Kremlin, 1922 Claude McKay, born in Jamaica in 1890, is the first modern master of the sonnet form. Yeats of course had turned out a few—one a…

Blake in the Academe

Jul, 2012 | by

In 1969, Northrop Frye introduced the new edition of his groundbreaking study of the works of the poet William Blake, with some offhand comments about its genesis: “The doctoral thesis…