Arcane Pleasures: On Poetry and Some Other Arts

Author: Mark Scroggins

Publisher: selva oscura press (2023)

"Swinburne, Ruskin, Morris, and Pater are the presiding spirits for Mark Scroggins's Arcane Pleasures, which addresses, primarily, the work of 19th- and 20th-century British and American poets, with an added focus on prose and verse 'fantasy.' Scroggins's erudite and ingenious commentaries goad me to return to works I thought I knew and entice me to reconsider the works I thought I didn't like. His aesthetic delight makes all his subjects deliciously fascinating." 

-Charles Bernstein