The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.

“For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics…”

“The truth is dark under your eyelids.What are you going to do about it?The bird…”

“I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my…”

“There’s a book called“A Dictionary of Angels.”No one has opened it in fifty yea…”