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A Literature Navigator for our PostModern World: August 2014
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Sunday, August 31, 2014. A famous painting [at left] by the important British pre-Raphaelite artist Cowper. 1877-1958] depicts Lancelot asleep as four British Isles queens espy him. This scene comes from the many stories of the round table, collected in a volume by Howard Pyle here. In 1905. There are other paintings of the same scene, ie. one by another British painter, Calderon. 1833-1898] from 1908. Be sure to know his famous piece "St. Elizabeth of Hungary's Great Act of Renunciation" (1891). The chi...
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A Literature Navigator for our PostModern World: Swinburne
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Sunday, June 14, 2015. English poet and many-time Nobel Prize in literature nominee, youthful wildman A.C. Swinburne. S [1837-1909] poem 'A Dark Month' has a great opening in stanza one [and read more here. Without sight of the sun. Rising or reigning or setting. Through days without use of the day,. Who calls it the month of May? The sense of the name is undone. And the sound of it fit for forgetting.We shall not feel if the sun rise,. We shall not care when it sets:. As noontide, why should we care?
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A Literature Navigator for our PostModern World: Elinor Wylie
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Monday, June 29, 2015. When against earth a wooden heel. Clicks as loud as stone on steel,. When stone turns flour instead of flakes,. And frost bakes clay as fire bakes,. When the hard-bitten fields at last. Crack like iron flawed in the cast,. When the world is wicked and cross and old,. I long to be quit of the cruel cold. Little birds like bubbles of glass. Fly to other Americas,. Birds as bright as sparkles of wine. Fly in the nite to the Argentine,. Birds of azure and flame-birds go. This is your g...
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A Literature Navigator for our PostModern World: April 2015
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Sunday, April 5, 2015. This piece by Canadian poet Archibald Lampman is a great evocation of the earth, the transience of life, and the endless amount of types of beauty in the natural world. It has a great ghostly feeling to it, with a real sense of danger- not dramatic danger, but the real, supreme danger of death. Of death's inevitability. BALLADE OF SUMMER'S SLEEP. Sweet summer is gone; they have laid her away—. The last sad hours that were touched with her grace—. Let not a sight or a sound erase.
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A Literature Navigator for our PostModern World: December 2014
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Sunday, December 14, 2014. We must feature the arresting, lovely piece " Something Beautiful. By Emily Montgomery in Rattle,. Issue 43, Spring 2014. It has an indelible feeling and image of the far East, of the tropics and the ancient beauty of Asia. It really reminds me of Tagore. The famous Bengali poet. Here's an excerpt, this is a great part:. I wanted to save something beautiful for you. The last three jewels of glistening pomegranate. Balanced in the palm of my hand before I ate them. Two great blo...
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A Literature Navigator for our PostModern World: John Crowe Ransom's poem "April"
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Monday, June 29, 2015. John Crowe Ransom's poem "April". SAVOR of love is thick on the April air,. The blunted boughs dispose their lacy bloom,. And many sorry steeds dismissed to pasture. Toss their old forelocks, flourish heavy heels. Where is there any unpersuaded poet. So angry still against the wrongs of winter. Which caused the dainty earth to droop and die,. So vengeant for his vine and summer song,. As to decline the good releasing thaw? Poets have temperature and follow seasons,. Drop us a note!
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A Literature Navigator for our PostModern World: June 2015
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Monday, June 29, 2015. When against earth a wooden heel. Clicks as loud as stone on steel,. When stone turns flour instead of flakes,. And frost bakes clay as fire bakes,. When the hard-bitten fields at last. Crack like iron flawed in the cast,. When the world is wicked and cross and old,. I long to be quit of the cruel cold. Little birds like bubbles of glass. Fly to other Americas,. Birds as bright as sparkles of wine. Fly in the nite to the Argentine,. Birds of azure and flame-birds go. Upon silver fl...
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A Literature Navigator for our PostModern World: Jackson
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Sunday, June 14, 2015. In the summer, reading winter poetry is a special thing to enjoy. You can really yearn for the ice cold breezes and crackling snow, whereas during the season itself, it's hard to appreciate. American poet and later activist for the Native Americans, Helen Hunt Jackson. 1830-1885] has a great poem on the month of 'January' in this vein [read more here. Frozen pulse and heart of fire,. What loss is theirs who from thy kingdom turn. Dismayed, and think thy snow a sculptured urn. Have ...
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A Literature Navigator for our PostModern World: Bryant
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Sunday, June 14, 2015. 1794-1878] has some great poetry, he's a more relaxed version of Shelley- a more American one. He was an early U.S. poet and walked seven miles daily to his workplace as a lawyer. Read his work here. And here's an example of his beautiful work [the last stanza elevates the whole thing]:. When beechen buds begin to swell,. And woods the blue-bird's warble know,. The yellow violet's modest bell. Peeps from the last year's leaves below. Ere russet fields their green resume,. Subscribe...
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A Literature Navigator for our PostModern World: February 2015
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Sunday, February 22, 2015. While usually LitNav focuses on classic, beautiful prose and poetry, there is no denying that reading for pure, simple fun is also amazing. Some people enjoy YA literature, others like Amish romance, some read sci-fi or mystery series, or even fanfic. For interesting, complex books about the intangible world and historical magic and religious traditions. Other light books to try are the slim, comic Jeeves and Wooster books and the Nero Wolfe mysteries by Rex Stout. The earl...
