Ascension poems by Donne, Vaughan, and Guite emphasize how, through Jesus, we touch the numinous.
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Intimate with Heaven, as Light
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Ascension", "Sonnet for Ascension Day", Henry Vaughan, John Donne, Malcolm Guite Comments closed
Dreaming of Travel during Covid
A very smart Covid poem circulating on social media at the moment references 11 poems, all about longing to travel.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", "Lake Isle of Innisfree", "Sea Fever", "Green Eye of the Yellow God", "Mandalay", "Milford Haven", "Rolling English Road", "Skye Boat Song", "Upon First reading Chapman's Homer", A. E. Housman, COVID-19, G.K. Chesterton, J. Milton Hayes, John Keats, John Masefield, Kenneth Grahame, Loveliest of Trees, Michael Drayton, Midsummer Night's Dream, Outlanders, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Henry Boulton, W. B. Yeats, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, wind in the willows Comments closed
In “Crown,” Philip Gets Auden, Not Keats
“The Crown” makes productive use of poetry to move the action. In three Season #3 episodes, we encounter Kipling, Shakespeare, Keats & Auden.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Mandalay", "Moon Landing", British royal family, Endymion, John Keats, Richard II, Rudyard Kipling, W.H. Auden, William Shakespeare Comments closed