Monthly Archives: May 2021

Poetry Defending Violated Nature

By Robin Bates | Published: May 20, 2021

Romantic poet John Clare would had had strong words about Trumpist attacks on our national parks.

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Flaubert Would Have Had Trump’s Number

By Robin Bates | Published: May 19, 2021

“Madame Bovary” gives us insight into why Trump botched the Covid response.

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We Are Losing Touch with the Earth

By Robin Bates | Published: May 18, 2021

Berry’s “Remembering” is a stinging attack on big agriculture. It touches on personal issues as well.

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GOP’s New Math: 2 + 2 = 5

By Robin Bates | Published: May 17, 2021

Now even Republicans are citing 1984 in response to Trump’s claims of voter fraud.

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Freud: Lit Leads to Self Mastery

By Robin Bates | Published: May 16, 2021

A Freudian analysis of why we are drawn to literature and what it does for us.

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I See Them Walking in an Air of Glory

By Robin Bates | Published: May 15, 2021

Henry Vaughan’s “They Are All Gone into the World of Light,” a great Ascension Day poem.

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Garcia Marquez on Erasing History

By Robin Bates | Published: May 13, 2021

As the GOP attempts to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6 insurrection, an erased massacre in “100 Years of Solitude” comes to mind.

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Iris Murdoch’s Literary Wisdom

By Robin Bates | Published: May 12, 2021

Iris Murdoch’s has profound things to say about the relationship of literature and life.

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1984, the Novel That Never Gets Old

By Robin Bates | Published: May 11, 2021

1984, always relevant. Now more than ever.

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