Kenneth Burke’s epigraph to his Grammar of Motives (1945) is ‘Ad bellum purificandum’— ‘for the purification of war.’…
And it is also creative, this madRestlessness of men.I shudder down their cities;They build them up again.
Alexandre Dumas’s Les Trois Mousquetaires (1844) first introduces us to d’Artagnan, a young man up from the…
About suffering they were often wrong,the Old Masters: distracted by wealth and rank,as if pain only matters when it…
Midniht wæs ond ful dreoriġ, hwīl biþoht-mi, wac ond weriġ,Uppan monig an ascung wyrdig boc of lār forgoten eall…
There are, it seems, three theories as to the meaning of the name ‘Hamlet’.