If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...

Burn explained that Betsy was the fourth child of William Patterson’s 11 children — six sons, and five daughters. Patterson, at the time, was a millionaire by today’s standards, and the second ...