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Ernest Hilbert on Illustrated Dust Jackets in the Washington Post
We are cautioned to avoid judging a book by its cover, yet that is precisely what publishers hope we will do. Dust jacket illustration, which came into its own in the 1920s,… Read More
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“Our Monotonous Sublime: Robert Lowell’s Notebook Poems” by Ernest Hilbert
My long essay on Robert Lowell's late career blank verse sonnets appears in the new issue of Literary Matters. Those poems exerted a potent influence on me while writing my own first… Read More