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Kokinshu #11 & #38
Moving right along in chronological order to the Kokinshu. A few from the Book of Spring. #11 はるのはじめのうた みぶのただみね 春きぬと 人はいへども うぐひすの なかぬかぎりは あらじとぞ思ふ Spring has come-quote People say-concessive (i.e. … more →
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when it's easier to reinvent the wheel
twhaan wrote 2 days ago: It’s easier to reinvent the wheel than to squeeze a dollar out of a dime or fit a square peg i … more →
Persuasion (French)
Jeff wrote 6 days ago: by Jane Austen Veuf et père de trois filles, le baronnet Walter Eliot est ruiné. Il doit laisser sa … more →
Aesop's Fables
Jeff wrote 2 weeks ago: by Aesop A Lion had come to the end of his days and lay sick unto death at the mouth of his cave, ga … more →
A Tale of Two Cities
Jeff wrote 2 weeks ago: by Charles Dickens Our booked passenger showed in a moment that it was his name. The guard, the coac … more →
1984
Jeff wrote 2 weeks ago: by George Orwell The thing that he was about to do was to open a diary. This was not illegal (nothin … more →
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Jeff wrote 2 weeks ago: by Lewis Caroll Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end! ‘I wonder how many miles I’ve … more →
A Christmas Carol
Jeff wrote 2 weeks ago: by Charles Dickens Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The regist … more →
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Jeff wrote 2 weeks ago: by Mark Twain The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she … more →
Advice from One of My Favorite Professors
Dwayne Waite Jr. wrote 3 weeks ago: Believe it or not, I am a proud graduate of Elon University. And, believe it or not, Elon University … more →
Patience, Apuleius
Stephen Rowe wrote 1 month ago: Lucius Apuleius, The Golden Ass I think patience truly is a virtue. In general I would say I have mo … more →
The Original Frankenstein Book Review
Dee wrote 2 months ago: Posted on Blogcritics.org Mary Shelley was a rather extraordinary woman in her time, although this r … more →
World lit class letter on Ramayana of Valmiki
thetascholar wrote 2 months ago: Dear Internet, I found a wonderfully artistic quote in my reading of the epic, The Ramayana of Valmi … more →
Rilke's Poetry
cecilhanibal wrote 3 months ago: One of my favourite poets has always been Reiner Maria Rilke (1875-1926). His style is playful and c … more →
Myth and Magic: Ambiguous Inferences in Hrafnkel's Saga and Erik's Saga
Tom Hartley wrote 4 months ago: Grettir Elements of myth and magic, abundant in Icelandic sagas, are especially evident whenever tim … more →
How Needs make for One-sided Conversations Fielding's Tom Jones and Sterne's Tristram Shandy
Tom Hartley wrote 4 months ago: Hobby-Horses Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy If Squire Western and Tobias Shandy met in a parl … more →
The Decline of Naturalism in Wordsworth’s Poetry
Tom Hartley wrote 4 months ago: Sunset The poetry of William Wordsworth provides a glimpse into the maturing mind of a poet who move … more →
Developing Moral Tolerance in the Early English Novel
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Tom Hartley wrote 4 months ago: Eighteenth century writers like Defoe and Richardson grappled with ethical issues in ways that wer … more →
Johnson, Wordsworth and Shelley: Imaginative Letters, Landscape Descriptions and Critical Statements
Tom Hartley wrote 4 months ago: Words Worth Sharing Dot Com During the course of the Romantic period there was a struggle between … more →
Friedrich Hölderlin: Da ich ein Knabe war
cecilhanibal wrote 4 months ago: One of the most powerful German poetry ever written is Friedrich Hölderlin’s one. Between Germ … more →
