Tag Archives: Fall

The Memoir Comes to the End (For Now)

By Robin Bates | Published: July 25, 2026

In which I bring my memoir to a close, looking at my life at 75 and imagining what is to come.

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And Took from Thence a Rib

By Robin Bates | Published: October 5, 2024

In “Paradise Lost,” Milton does interesting things with Adam’s rib and the creation of Eve.

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Autumn, a Time to Reflect

By Robin Bates | Published: September 30, 2020

For Mary Oliver, autumn is a time to reflect.

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The Violins of Autumn

By Robin Bates | Published: September 23, 2014

I still remember memorizing, as a child in a French school, Paul Verlaine’s deliciously sad “Chanson d’automne.”

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Less Sexually Liberating for Women

By Robin Bates | Published: September 24, 2009

Jean Honore Fragonard, The Bolt (1776)   Yesterday I wrote about Aphra Behn giving us images of women’s sexual liberation in her 1677 play The Rover.  But there is a dark undertone that differentiates the play from male-authored Restoration comedies.  Behn’s play may not be as polished as the plays of William Wycherley and George Etherege.  […]

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