Anyone who has lived in a city knows that cities are vile: nasty, crime-ridden, stinking of urine, plagued with rats, cauldrons of disease. And who has known cities also knows that cities are the home ...

America is not best known for its Catholic poets, but Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920) should not be as forgotten as she is. Scrabbling for jobs as a young woman in Boston, she worked as an editor and ...