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First Love
(Первая любовь) Ivan Turgenev 1860 (A young man is thrown into the sweet agony of unrequited love for his beautiful new neighbor.) Woldemar, a young man of sixteen, experiences the whirlwind of love descending on him for the first time, as he becomes acquainted with the beautiful and elegant Zinaida, the daughter of a princess, […]
Lyrical Ballads, and other early poems
William Wordsworth 1785-1799 (A poetic sage takes lessons on goodness and beauty from nature.) A man of wisdom, a poet of nature, is Wordsworth. These are the goals to which he aspires, goals that are discernable in his work from a very early age. He wrote many of his greatest poems in the years covered […]
Sappho’s poetic fragments
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 […]
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
(Le Roman de Tristan et Iseut) Joseph Bédier 1900 (A knight and a lady pursue their magical love through bloodshed and sorrow.) When tales pass through centuries of retellings, they tend to become what of audio media we would call “overproduced”: too many interpreters have slanted the story their various ways, too many embellishments and […]
Tom Jones
June 4, 2014 / Leave a comment
Henry Fielding 1749 (Tom really wants to be good for the sake of his love Sophia, but his nature keeps getting in the way!) It is prudent to be morally pure– there can be weighty unseen consequences to any moral failure. Fielding’s signature novel has this ponderous theme, and yet manages not to be at […]
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