Tag Archives: NFL

Peterson and Literary Child Thrashings

By Robin Bates | Published: September 20, 2014

Adrian Peterson’s mistreatment of his four-year-old son has echoes of the caning described by Rudyard Kipling.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 13, 2014

Aphra Behn wrestles with novel ways to deal with potential abuse in her play “The Rover.”

By Robin Bates | Published: September 11, 2014

Ray Rice’s fury at his fiancé, like John Wilmot’s distrust of women, shows his inability to move from the world of men to that of women.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 6, 2014

The Seattle Seahawks look prepared, once again, to unleash havoc on the other teams in the NFL–like the hawk in a Robert Cording poem.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 30, 2014

My love of the NFL runs me up against some real moral quandaries. Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte would understand.

By Robin Bates | Published: February 15, 2014

This wonderful Dacey poem about skating captures the other self we feel is just beyond the horizon–or beneath the ice.

By Robin Bates | Published: February 8, 2014

Peyton Manning was not Homer’s Odysseus but Tennyson’s Ulysses.

By Robin Bates | Published: February 3, 2014

Mary Oliver’s poem about hunting hawks about sums up last night’s Super Bowl.

By Robin Bates | Published: January 21, 2014

A passage in the Odyssey forecasts that Peyton Manning will win the Super Bowl.