Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

What has happened to me may well be a good thing - the death of Socrates

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Euthyphro , Apology , Crito , and Phaedo , the extended version of the death of Socrates.  These texts, especially the last three, are a lar...
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Friday, February 14, 2014

The Bog People by P. V. Glob - who in return so often gave their faces her blessing

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I will ease myself back into Scandinavia by going back to the beginning, to the Iron Age tribes unearthed in The Bog People (1965) by Danis...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Death in Kipling's boys' book - one hundred and seventeen of them

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What does Harvey need to do to become a man, great or otherwise, according to Captains Courageous ?  He needs to learn the value of work.  H...
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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Read The Book of Disquiet - before you DIE!

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Yesterday, after putting up my invitation to read The Book of Disquiet along with whatever group of sharp characters plans to join in with ...
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Friday, October 26, 2007

Sorrows neither few nor brief – Jorge Manrique

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The logical place to end my tour of poetry in translation is in Spain, but I don’t know much about 19th century Spanish poetry. Just some na...
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Thursday, October 4, 2007

Thomas Lovell-Beddoes: minor early Victorian poet

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I’m saving the best for last. Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-49) was an itinerant medical student and political radical, son of another doctor ...
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