In Secret Commonwealth and Rose Field, Pullman takes inspiration from the great Romantic poets in his quest to keep the imagination open.
Sign up for my weekly newsletter
Tag Archives: William Blake
Pullman’s Debt to the Romantic Poets
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Ode to the West Wind", "World is too much with us", “Aeolian Harp", Biographia Literaria, fantasy, Imagination, Intimations of Immortality, Percy Shelley, Philip Pullman, Rose Field, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Secret Commonwealth, Tintern Abbey, W. H. Auden, William Wordsworth Comments closed
Blake on Venezuelan Kidnapping
Blake’s “The Grey Monk” captures everything that’s wrong about Trump’s Venezuela invasion.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Grey Monk", Donald Trump, Nicolás Maduro, tyranny, Venezuela invasion, violence Comments closed
Old Wisdom from Jane Goodall (R.I.P.)
The wisdom of the late Jane Goodall, as expressed in one of her poems.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Each and All", "Old Wisdom", Auguries of Innocence, Environmentalism, Jane Goodall, Ralph Waldo Emerson Comments closed
Oliver: My Work Is Loving the World
in Mary Oliver’s “Messenger,” the poet provides insight into what it means to live forever.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Each and All", "Messenger", All the Pretty Horses, Auguries of Innocence, Cormac McCarthy, Easter, Francis Hodgson Burnett, Mary Oliver, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Resurrection, Secret Garden, Tintern Abbey, William Wordsworth Comments closed
Blake vs. GOP’s Strict Father Morality
The “strict father morality” that, according to Lakoff, governs today’s GOP reminds one of William Blake’s Nobodaddy.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Shepherd", "To Nobodaddy", daddy issues, George Lakoff, strict father morality Comments closed
Blake, Gibran, and Harris’s Joy
The power and effectiveness of Harris and Walz’s joy is captured in poems by Blake and Gibran.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Eternity, "Joy and Sorrow", 2024 election, Al Sharpton, Auguries of Innocence, Bill Clinton, joy, Kahlil Gibran, Kamala Harris, Prophet Comments closed
Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love
Few poems better capture for me that vision of God’s heaven on earth than Blake’s “The Divine Image.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Divine Image", Heaven on earth, Malcolm Guite, polarization Comments closed
Hearing the Celestial Voices
Two shepherd poems to mark the shepherd references in today’s lectionary.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Hollow Men", "Journey of the Magi", "man who killed the bear", "Shepherd", "Song of the Shepherds", 23rd Psalm, Annunciation of the shepherds, Dante, Jeremiah, Lucille Clifton, Paradiso, Richard Bauckman, T. S. Eliot Comments closed