It is interesting reading Electra where the subject matter was also treated by Aeschylus and Euripides. I haven't read Euripides treatment, but I think I preferred Aeschylus treatment, because his way of writing is so overwrought and it suits the subject matter better. None the less Sophocles trea...
A phenomenal achievement in publishing by itself, the author explores her emotions over the passing of her brother through the prism of Poem 101 by Catullus, with the definition of each Latin word on facing pages from her clipped, collage, written, and typed snippets of thought and memory. You'll ru...
Imagine if the majority of Shakespeare’s plays and poetry had disappeared long ago. It’s not a far-fetched proposition, when you think about it; all of Shakespeare’s personal writing and manuscripts are missing, and several of the plays are missing (Cardenio, Love’s Labors Found, etc). However, a ...
I skipped the essays. My brain rejects academic essays, especially when there's some good poetry to get to. I thought the oratorio stuff was pretty exciting. I would have liked to see it staged or try to write music for it as a creative exercise.Mostly I think I wasn't in the mood to read poetry, ev...
It makes me uneasy to be underwhelmed by a book the rest of the planet rates very highly, but underwhelmed I was. I am neither a Greek scholar nor have I read Sappho previously, so maybe this was the wrong place to start. There were definitely some good fragments in the book, but a lot of the time I...
To abolish seduction is a mother's goal.She will replace it with what is real: products.Demeter's victoryover Hadesdoes not consist in her daughter's arrival from down below,it's the world in bloom-cabbages lures lambs broom sex milk money!These kill death.
If, possibly, one could describe what Nox is as a work of abstract poetry it could possibly be considered a kind of meta-elegy. Because, in many different ways Nox is a haunting work that talks about the elegiac mode while existing as an elegy in and of itself. The title itself appears to be from th...
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