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  • Epitaph On A Tyrant


    Blogut — Authority Authority: 576
    Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand, And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets. W. H. ...
    1 day ago

  • Craig Raine on Harold Pinter


    A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority Authority: 126
    Craig Raine remembers Harold Pinter, who passed away in 2008: Its just over a year since Harold Pinter died. But I think of him in the present tense, at Lords cricket ground, ebullient because he has conquered cancer, and the titles of his plays are up there on the scoreboard. He looks as if he is about to score ...
    3 days ago

  • A Boxing Day Thought...


    The Highest Form of Hope — Authority Authority: 106
    W. H. Auden, For the Time Being Well, so that is that. Now we must dismantle the tree, Putting the decorations back into their cardboard boxes -- Some have got broken -- and carrying them up to the attic. The holly and the mistletoe must be taken down and burnt, And the children got ready for school. There are ...
    1 week ago

  • Advent III: But then … they appear


    P e r ? C r u c e m ? a d ? L u c e m — Authority Authority: 427
    After W.H. Auden had visited the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels, and seen Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s c.1558 work, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus , he went away and penned the following cynical words: About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; how well, they understood Its ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Art, War and Sand


    Everybody Means Something — Authority Authority: 103
    Guernica There were three of us working through what is the last book currently in the series of study books I wrote about in a previous post . The facilitator mentioned something completely new to me: a You Tube video he had seen of a very moving sand animation depicting how people had suffered during the German ...
    4 weeks ago

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