“The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” episode in “Wind in the Willows” is a powerful expression of pantheism.
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Haunted by the Absent Music
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Can the Mississippi Be Bullied?
It appears that New Orleans will be spared the flooding that has occurred further up river, thanks to the Army Corps of Engineers playing God and determining who gets protected and who goes under. While it’s certainly amazing what the Corps has accomplished, but one can’t help but think of Mark Twain’s skepticism in Life on the Mississippi almost 130 years ago.
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
I promised to post one of these days on Wind in the Willows, and all this talk of intimations of immortality has put me in mind of two remarkable chapters in that book. What does Wordsworth mean by our “obstinate questionings of sense and outward things,” of our feelings that we are “moving about […]
