Tag Archives: Percy Shelley

Trump’s Judges, Pale Riders

The danger of Trump’s Supreme Court is captured in Shelley’s poem “The Masque of Anarchy.”

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Immunity for Trump? Bring Back George III

Since the U.S. Supreme Court seems determined to restore monarchy (at least with regard to Trump), here’s a Shelley George III poem.

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Remembering My Eldest 24 Years Later

A Mary Oliver poem about grieving as I remember my eldest, who died 24 years ago on this day.

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Bloom: The Bard Invented the Human

I examine how Harold Bloom believes that Shakespeare changed history.

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Pullman and Dante on the Afterlife

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

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The Grand Canyon, Abyss Sublime

18th century notions of the sublime are attempts to capture something as mind-blowing as the Grand Canyon, which I visited yesterday.

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Do Not Stand by My Grave and Weep

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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the passing of all shining things

e.e. cummings has a dialogue with Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” in his own poem about autumn. I include Frost and Oliver in the reflection as well.

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Read Lit, Then Fight for Freedom

While literature may seem irrelevant to our political battles, it provides (as Shelley points out) an invaluable human compass.

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