Quote of the day
Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!
Richard Howard

Born: October 13, 1929
Died: March 31, 2022 (aged 92)
Bio: Richard Joseph Howard was an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate of Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren, and where he now teaches.
Known for:
- A Progressive Education (2014)
- Bonaparte's Sons (1997)
- Strange Tales in Fiction and Fact (2006)
- Without Saying (2008)






