Category Archives: Mundane

What’s Wrong with “Dead Poets”

The 1989 film starring Robin Williams won a fair raft of awards (as a jot of Google research shows), and I presume it was recieved as an evocative defense of poetry. It is perhaps more properly a defense of acting. The film well excoriated the driest and stodgiest scholars of poetry, and not as an invented nemisis but a real Read More