Platonism for the Iron Age

Frederic Will is an independent scholar who divides his time between Iowa and Ughelli, Delta State, Nigeria. He has written critical and autobiographical texts, travel reports, fiction and poetry, and studies in the operation of ideas.

"Beautifully balanced reflective poems"—On A Wedge of Words, 1963, London Times Literary Supplement"A lone genius, a huge bombshell of gravity"—Willis Barnstone, Indiana University, on Will's The Long Poem in the Age of Twitter, 2011"A stimulating and provocative work"—On Literature Inside Out, 1966, Poetry (Chicago)"Will is of that academic breed which lives with literature and not off it"—On The King's Flute (translation of epic by Kostes Palamas), 1966, Modern Language Journal