Austen’s Anne Eliott describes “good company” in a way that captures our own friendships.
Monthly Archives: March 2024
Master, Speak to Us of Friendship
As we travel around the country refreshing friendships, I think of what Kahlil Gibran says about the subject.
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Spring, the Sweet Spring!
A joyous Thomas Nashe poem to welcome in the new season.
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A Bookstore and the Library of Babel
Attending a good bookstore makes me realize how relatively little I have read. Borges’s “Library of Babel” makes one feel similarly small.
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Here’s to Old Ireland!
A Jean Blewett poem for St. Patrick’s Day.
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Could “Dover Beach” Deter a Rape?
In McEwan’s “Saturday,” the poem “Dover Beach” prevents a rape and possibly a murder.
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