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Break, Blow, Burn by Camille Paglia

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Essays from forty-three of her favorite poems. Over 20 of the poems are 20th century and American poets, which is a bit of disappointment. Her analysis of Yeats, Shelly, and the ghost speech from Hamlet is brilliant.

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