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Songs and Sonets

December 16, 2014 / Leave a comment

John Donne d. 1631 (An earthy, imaginative, thoughtful soul reveals his view of love, steeped in metaphor and emotion.) Crop of Francesca da Rimini with her lover Paolo, by the Scottish painter William Dyce (1837).  This painting can be seen in the National Galleries of Scotland. Though not quite as scandalous as Paolo, who is here courting his brother’s […]

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Sappho’s poetic fragments

June 9, 2014 / Leave a comment

Sappho 7th-6th centuries BC (The tenth muse expresses beauty, love, and the contents of her heart.) Αιαι.  Aiai!  If only our dinner hosts still upheld the custom of ordering beautiful recitations over the wine!  So it was in the days when some, at least, still believed in the Muses.  On one of these evenings, Solon the […]

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