Tag Archives: Afterlife

Philip Pullman’s Unorthodox Afterlife

By Robin Bates | Published: November 4, 2023

In “Amber Spyglass,” Pullman rebels against orthodox versions of the afterlife and creates his own.

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Homer, Virgil, Dante and the Afterlife

By Robin Bates | Published: November 1, 2023

Literary afterlives, such as we encounter in Homer, Virgil, and Dante, are as much about this world as the next.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Aeneid, Dante, death, Divine Comedy, Homer, Inferno, inner doubts, midlife crisis, Odyssey, Paradiso, Samuel Johnson, Virgil | Comments closed

Pullman and Dante on the Afterlife

By Robin Bates | Published: July 15, 2023

Pullman, drawing on Dante, provides one of the most sustaining accounts of the afterlife that I know.

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Do Not Stand by My Grave and Weep

By Robin Bates | Published: November 3, 2022

As Slovenes this past week visited the graves of those who have passed on, I thought of Frye’s poem “Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep.”

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