Recently updatedA thought about the John Berryman lines in Succession.#poetry#television·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jun 1, 2023Recently updated
Succession and poetryFrank O’Hara and John Berryman.#FrankO'Hara#television#poetry·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jun 1, 2023Succession and poetry
Recently updatedPerry Mason and John Keats: A reader writes to point out the “burrs” in Keats’s poem.#JohnKeats#PerryMason#poetry#television·mleddy.blogspot.com·May 13, 2020Recently updated
Joe Friday and T.S.E.An Andrew McCabe sentence sounds like them both.#poetry#television·mleddy.blogspot.com·Feb 17, 2019Joe Friday and T.S.E.
New directionsA Hallmark movie has quoted “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”#poetry#television·mleddy.blogspot.com·Dec 8, 2018New directions
A Naked City DickinsonThe pulled-back hair, the little tie: this recluse’s appearance owes something to the famous daguerreotype.#EmilyDickinson#NakedCity#poetry#television·mleddy.blogspot.com·Mar 21, 2014A Naked City Dickinson
Naked poetry CityJust because I’m a police officer doesn’t mean I don’t read poetry. [Laughs.] I guess I’m a little old-fashioned.#EmilyDickinson#NakedCity#poetry#television·mleddy.blogspot.com·Mar 8, 2014Naked poetry City
“Give her a little Rimbaud”From Route 66: “Be the intellectual. Change of pace. She’ll never see it coming. It’ll dazzle her. Tell her you’re an existentialist.”#philosophy#poetry#Route66#television·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jun 17, 2013“Give her a little Rimbaud”
Colbert, Kennedy, poetry“It occurs to me that The Colbert Report must be the most genuinely arts-oriented half-hour on television.”#poetry#television·mleddy.blogspot.com·Apr 18, 2013Colbert, Kennedy, poetry
Poetry and Naked CityTwo grown-ups, quick, allusive, and crazy in love.#television#NakedCity#poetry·mleddy.blogspot.com·May 18, 2012Poetry and Naked City
Perry Mason and John KeatsTV dialogue#JohnKeats#poetry#television#PerryMason·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jun 24, 2010Perry Mason and John Keats
You know you’re really an English major of a certain age when . . .you immediately recognize T.S. Eliot’s Complete Poems and Plays: 1909–1950 (1971) on the bookshelf behind the interviewees on MSNBC’s Hardball.#books#poetry#television#TSEliot·mleddy.blogspot.com·Aug 23, 2009You know you’re really an English major of a certain age when . . .
Frank O'Hara and Mad Men againMeditations in an Emergency reappears#FrankO'Hara#poetry#television·mleddy.blogspot.com·Oct 22, 2008Frank O'Hara and Mad Men again