Alas, not me

All literature enchants and delights us, recovers us from the 10,000 things that distract us. The unenchanted life is not worth living.

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26 October 2017

The More You Read, The More Jokes You Get

Jean Simmons, Laurence Olivier, Hamlet (1948) A friend of mine once told me that the more you read, the more jokes you get. HAMLET: L...

Sad Songs They Say So Much, or, Northrop Frye Explains It All

Northrop Frye statue outside the Moncton Public Library, not yet defaced by adherents of subsequent critical schools In this miraculou...

22 October 2017

Guest Post -- Meredith McEwen on Goldberry

Some weeks ago, following up on discussions in the class Meredith McEwen refers to below, I posted some observations on Goldberry . Soo...

15 October 2017

Review: Ragnarok

Ragnarok by A.S. Byatt My rating: 5 of 5 stars More complete and profound a retelling of Norse myths and...

Iliad 1.1-52 Mythgard 2017 Webathon Recording

I make no pretense of being great at reading Homer aloud. I am well aware I made a number of mistakes in this recording. There were ti...

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