Classics in Sarasota

Reading classical works aloud in Sarasota, and talking about them.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Annotations on a pair of poems

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The Three Graces: Aglaea ("Beauty"), Euphrosyne ("Mirth"), and Thalia ("Good Cheer") by Antonio Canova. So...
Wednesday, August 19, 2009

September Milton

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Our next meeting will be at Gulf Gate on Sept. 2 in the afternoon, from 1 pm to 3 pm. We'll return to the morning time the following ses...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Some early Mannerist works

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Madonna with the Long Neck The Wedding Feast of Cupid and Psyche Bacchus
Friday, August 07, 2009

Stumbled upon via Serendip

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Nun Appleton House This looks to be a complete essay by T.S. Eliot on Marvell: First published in the Times Literary Supplement , 31 March...

The World's Oldest Bible

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Thanks to Jutta for the link to a digitized setting of the Codex Sinaiticus , 1,600 years old.

Worthwhile Morris

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In Seven Lies about Lying , Errol Morris beautifully articulates the complex play of implication and deceit in the tale of Joseph and his br...
Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Another Juxtaposition

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London, 1802 [ 2 ] MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, ...

Garden and Brain

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It might be interesting to compare Marvell's "The Garden" and Dickinson's "The brain-- is wider than the sky" Th...

Pursuant to our all too brief look at Whitman

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A couple of pointers to John Cage . An autobiographical statement - "at this time I was reading Leaves of Grass ... Interview with Ter...
Sunday, August 02, 2009

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A few pointers to Marvell: Brief bios here , here , here, and here , complete older bio here . Timeline A nice collection of his poems More...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Two Links for Whitman

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A Politically Incorrect Ode to Whitman Whitman isn’t in He will not be in This year or the next He’s gone out Far out where the two Americas...
Sunday, July 19, 2009

The old, old sophistries of June

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Some further links to Dickinson: Her grave Lots of interesting links here Her herbarium From a review of 1913 : To gratify the a...
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