Monthly Archives: August 2013

Magnificent Women in the Sick Room

By Robin Bates | Published: August 22, 2013

Tolstoy shows us deathbed vigils can spur us to a deeper engagement with life.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 21, 2013

As I read my dying father poems from Blake’s “Songs of Innocence,” I relived cherished memories.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 20, 2013

My father is dying. One of his last acts was to find an A. A. Milne passage about Sewanee’s incessant rain for the local newspaper.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 19, 2013

Perhaps Chaucer’s Wife of Bath has some good suggestions on preventing sexual assault in the military.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 18, 2013

Richard Crashaw celebrates the Feast of the Assumption with a feminized Christianity.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 17, 2013

Fitzgerald’s baseball poem captures the sounds and the textures of the game.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 16, 2013

Wordsworth’s “Prelude” captures both the hopes and disillusion that many have felt about the Egyptian revolution.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 15, 2013

This Scott Bates fable sings the praises of individual vision.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 14, 2013

“David Copperfield” enjoins us to respect the interiority of children.