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IN THE SUNLIGHT

thomasbrady wrote 8 hours ago: One of the most curious episodes in Letters is T.S. Eliot’s declaration in 1920, in the wake of J.M. … more →

Tags: Ezra Pound, hamlet, J. M. Robertson, John Quinn, Milton, Modernism, romantic poets, Scofield Thayer, Shakespeare

PEDANTS OF POETRY: THE TOP TEN2 comments

thomasbrady wrote 2 weeks ago: ~ ~ Paul Valery (top), Polonius & T.S. Eliot The last 100 years have seen more pedantry in poetr … more →

Tags: make it new, Allen Tate, Aristotle, byron, charles bernstein, Cleanth Brooks, Dante, Derrida, Ezra Pound

Depressed in Cape Town this time.

broadwaydannyr wrote 2 weeks ago: I’m in a two bedroom apartment style hotel room. In a brand new hotel, built no doubt in 6 mon … more →

Tags: 1, David Furnish, parquay floors, cape town worldcup, Trump, Ikea, national gallery, noble peace prize winners, Goodman Gallery

Courses to feel warm about

habitataid wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ve just snared our final keynote speaker for the courses we’re running next year, whic … more →

Tags: Habitat Aid Ltd., Hedges, meadows, orchards, ponds, Jeremy Clarkson

Been Doon So Long: A Randall Grahm Anthology

Stuart George wrote 3 weeks ago: The Bonny Doon winemaker Randall Grahm has just published an anthology of his quirky writing. Please … more →

Tags: Out and About, Bonny Doon, California, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Dante, Don Quijote, Franz Kafka, hugh johnson, James Joyce

Where angels fear to tread

射手座の新★ wrote 1 month ago: Such shameless Bards we have; and yet ’tis true, There are as mad, abandon’d Criticks to … more →

Tags: criticism

下载中

ariosto wrote 1 month ago: 下午15:53,天色渐暗 下载中…… 1.法国新古典主义是当时两股思潮发展出来的综合结果:一个是16世纪的人文主义,它给作家们打开了古希腊罗马文化的宝库,给他们提供了无数杰出的楷模;另一个是17世纪上 … more →

Tags: Diary, 抄书, 布瓦洛, N. Boileau, 笛卡尔, 屈莱顿, John Drydon, 蒲伯

Ardi: Link, Or a Twig?

Joseph Steinberg wrote 1 month ago: Eric Michael talks way too much about “plenitude”, but his warning, that Ardi. ramidus i … more →

Tags: Science, Ardipithecus ramidus, Evolution, Great Chain of Being, Owen Lovejoy

EC/ASECS, Bethlehem, how far did the Enlightenment reach: women slaves, gambling, Zurich, Blake and his publisher, Joseph Johnson1 comment

ellenandjim wrote 1 month ago: Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), The Banjo Lesson (1893) Dear Friends, This is my last conference re … more →

Tags: 18th Century, conference report, Emily Kempin -Spyri, Eveline Hasler, samuel gessner, anna goldin, William Blake, book illustrations

Lincoln's Own Reading List, Summer-Autumn, 1862, '63, and '64

presidentlincolnscottage wrote 1 month ago: By Erin Carlson Mast Welcome to the fifth and final installment of our President Lincoln’s Cot … more →

Tags: Education, History, Abraham Lincoln, Artemus Ward, Bible, Book Lists, Charles F. Browne, Fitz-Greene Halleck, James H. Hackett

Barney B in graphic Kruschev visitation – see the evidence for yourself.

davidwills wrote 1 month ago: Connections. Twiggy and Pope’s Grotto… Was in the coffee-palace today thinking ’bout my Barney logs … more →

Tags: 2000s, Art, Barney Bubbles, David Wills, Design, Graphic Design, Green Tech, History, Barney B

On a Certain Lady at Court - Alexander Pope

Saera wrote 1 month ago: I know the thing that’s most uncommon; (Envy be silent, and attend!) I know a reasonable woman … more →

Tags: Literature, Love, Restoration, Restoration Poets, age of reason

Aaron wrote 1 month ago: ‘There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.’ … more →

Tags: Quotes, Quotations, Sayings, Famous Quotes, QOTD, qotmfd, Quote Of The Day, Life, Love

The Season of Death2 comments

sdshspress wrote 1 month ago: The season of death has come. We’ve been flirting with frost for most of October, though the unusual … more →

Tags: coyotes, SDSHS Press, Waiting for Coyote's Call, Solar energy, fossil fuel, Jerry Wilson, Missouri River, winter, South Dakota history

October Poem

Sarah Katherine Lingo wrote 2 months ago: October Poem I saw in the sky a head with two bodies: one of a turtle, the other a horse. To embrace … more →

Tags: Poetry, Oasis, Love, Melancholy

The Answer My Friend Is Blow Wind Blow

Some of these bootleggers, they make pretty good stuff wrote 2 months ago: From Dreamtime Blog, some thoughts on Bob Dylan and Alexander Pope inspired by Dylan’s introdu … more →

Tags: Music, Bob Dylan, muddy waters, Theme Time Radio

(Missed) Saturday Cryptoquote Spoiler - 10/17/09

unclerave wrote 2 months ago: “We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow.  Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. … more →

Tags: Entertainment, Games, language, Word Games, Puzzles, cryptoquote, codes, Quotes

The Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind.1 comment

Caitlin wrote 2 months ago: How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot Eternal sun … more →

Tags: Me, Myself, and I, Inspiration, film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Kate Winslet, Jim Carrey, Memory, Eternal

POPE, ALEXANDER

agirlcalledbecky wrote 2 months ago: OH, WHAT A CLEVER MAN. So it’s 1733 or thereabouts. Bolingbroke, a charming bloke, is in corre … more →

Tags: Literature, Poetry, Alcohol


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