Edmund
π 'Gerard Manley Hopkins's Poetics of Anxiety and Transience' (2023) and I rose up, and knew that I was tired, and continued my journey
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I cannot rid my mind of these first couple of verses from Auden's poem on Yeats's death. It's incredible how they set the stage for the rest of the poem atmosphere-wise. https://t....
'Sitting, last winter,among my books, and walled round with all the comfort and protection which they and my fireside could afford me; to wit, a table of high-piled books at my bac...
'Speak, that we may hear; Listen, while we confess That we conceal our fear; Regard us, while the eye Discerns by sight or guess Whether, as sheep foregather Upon their crooked kne...
All the kudos in the world to the little man. But these prodigies rarely translate into creative geniuses. With the rarest of exceptions, we no longer are producing great composers...
The mournful cry of the loon stands as one of nature's most haunting and evocative melodies, serving as a profound inspiration for countless writers, with Thoreau notably among the...
'There is a blest place: by the trace In wilderness, in a little gladeβs middle, Where in the eve, mists twine and bristle In moony silverβs easy laceβ¦ My friend! You know that gla...
'The sail is whitening alone In blue obscurity of sea: What did it leave in country own? What does it want so far to see.' ~ Mikhail Lermontov, 'The Sail' https://t.co/1iZA2K6JNN
I think Philip Roth is the best English-writing novelist of the second half of the 20th century, and arguably also of the first decade of the 21st century.
'And I donβt believe in this materialism, in this consumer society, in this capitalism, in this outrageous horror that happens / takes place here ... I really do believe in somethi...