Meditations on Margaret Edson’s “W;t”–with further reflections on whether Donne’s poetry can help us handle death.
Monthly Archives: November 2014
The Fellowship of Soldiers
In a poem for Veterans Day, Wilfred Owen captures the heartfelt emotions and the bonding that soldiers experience. Some of these emotions are genuinely moving, others are disturbing.
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Battered and Broken and Weary
Writing in the George Herbert tradition, Dorothy Sayers rails against God before finally succumbing to divine love.
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Sports Autographs & Locks of Hair
Fans’ obsession with autographs are like the Baron’s obsession with Belinda’s locks in “Rape of the Lock.”
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Reading Novels for Moral Instruction
“Tom Jones” teaches how to raise adolescents. And how not to.
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10 Famous Fetish Objects in Lit
Literature is filled with fetish objects that take on outsized significance to various characters.
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Election Day as Trollope Describes it
Anthony Trollope wittily describes an election in “Doctor Thorne.”
