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Thursday, September 10, 2026

A NOTE TO TWO FRIENDS ON BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICIST LITERARY CRITICISM

My arts and letters club’s book club, which I went to for the first time yesterday, took up a book I hadn’t read—I didn’t know it was to b...

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

A FURTHER NOTE ON WALLACE STEVENS’ POEM THE EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM

Further to the immediately below blog post. As written to someone: We don’t need poems to teach us anything. In speaking of the “moral” o...

Saturday, September 5, 2026

A FEW NOTES ON WALLACE STEVENS’ THE EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM

The Emperor of Ice-Cream WALLACE STEVENS Call the roller of big cigars, The muscular one, and bid him whip In kitchen cups concupiscent curd...

PROSE POEM IS CONTRADICTORY

As usual I left the salon with my head buzzing over what we were talking about, this time mostly prose poems, (less so how much I dislike ...

Friday, August 28, 2026

SOME OF MY PROBLEMS WITH CAMUS’ MYTH OF SISYPHUS

Here are some or my beefs with Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus 1, He says the universe gives us no ultimate meaning, which is what everyone wan...

Saturday, August 22, 2026

A NOTE ON EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBERTSON’S THE HOUSE ON THE HILL

The House On The Hill Edwin Arlington Robinson They are all gone away, The House is shut and still, There is nothing more to say. Through...

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About Me

itzik basman: I got my B.A. in English Literature from the University of British Columbia ("U.B.C."). I got my Secondary School Teaching Certificate from U.B.C. and my Masters degree in English Literature from U.B.C. writing my 125 page Masters' Thesis on the novels of Mordecai Richler. I attended Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, graduating with my Juris Doctor . After articling and completing the Ontario Bar Admissions Course, I was called to the bar in Ontario. I have practiced law to date in Toronto, specializing in Family Law, Civil Litigation, and Appellate Advocacy. I have pleaded cases in all civil Ontario courts, including many times in the Ontario Court of Appeal, as well as the Supreme Court of Canada. I practice law under the firm name Itzik Basman Barrister, James Rose, my former associate, having died January 23, 2011. I published on line in 2004 my extended essay on "Hamlet, entitled Futility As Tragedy: An Interpretation Of Hamlet". It can be found at Lulu.Com. It was critically reviewed both in Kritikos and Politics and Culture. I live in Toronto.

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