To bolster yourself against this age of anxiety, memorize robust poetry. Other poetry works as well.
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The Case for Memorizing Poetry
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How Sleep the Brave
Memorial Day Looking back over the blog, I’m surprised that I have never posted William Collins’s “How Sleep the Brave” on Memorial Day. According to Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, Collins “loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters,” and we see him merging fantasy, nature imagery, and high-minded allegory in this tribute to fallen soldiers. […]
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Out There the World Is Cruel and Loud
The Prodigal Son is a fruitful story for artist projection.
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Can Poetry Be Bad for You?
The possibility that poetry can have a deleterious effect on one (the poetry of Scott and Byron anyway) is a possibility that Austen brings up in “Persuasion.”
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