Upon leaving college, I came to see literature more as a means of escaping my life than as a way of engaging with it more fully. That’s because I was unsatisfied with this life.
Tag Archives: Rime of the Ancient Mariner
My Life as Bildungsroman
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged bildungsroman, Don Quixote, Henry Fielding, Main Street, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sinclair Lewis, Tom Jones Leave a comment
Samuel Beckett’s Tennis Advice
Beckett, a tennis fan, has some lines that can bolster tennis players. Or at least get them through long slogs.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Amanda Anisimova, Aryna Sabalenka, Jannik Sinner, Samuel Beckett, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, tennis, theater of the absurd, Thomas Swick, U.S. Open, Unnamable, Worstward Ho Comments closed
Let Us Sleep Now
Poetic passages that capture my current feelings of exhaustion.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged “Garden of Prosperine", Charles Algernon Swinburne, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wilfred Owen Comments closed
Trump as Dracula and Ancient Mariner
Maureen Dowd compares Trump to Dracula and the Ancient Mariner. The comparisons are worth exploring.
Sickness Strikes Again
I my recent bout with Covid, passages from “Heart of Darkness” and “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” came to mind.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Heart of Darkness, Illness, Joseph Conrad, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Comments closed
Coleridge’s Nightmare LIFE-IN-DEATH
Think of “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” as a Halloween poem.
Aslan as Eco Warrior
Lewis’s Aslan is a bold creative stroke that opens up environmental possibilities for Christianity.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged animal rights, C. S. Lewis, climate change, Environmentalism, Imagination, John Gatta, Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Magician's Nephew, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, theology Comments closed
Poets and Climate Change’s 5-Alarm Fire
Literature has a role to play in the fight against climate change. Coleridge early on showed us how.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged climate change, ecocriticism, Nature, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Comments closed
