InAdam’s NotebookbyAdam RobertsPope’s GilgameshThat Alexander Pope never completed, or published, his translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh is, perhaps, not surprising. Despite the…May 81
InCurated NewslettersbyDr John Frederick RoseThe Arrogance of Inexperience.“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread”.Oct 14, 2023Oct 14, 2023
Dana K FlynnAn Essay on Man’s Internal ContradictionsAlexander Pope’s An Essay on Man features existential musings regarding the place of humanity in the universe. Pope’s poem creates an…Apr 3, 2023Apr 3, 2023
Brad RothThe Preface as PoetryI mentioned before in this blog that I’m reading Will and Ariel Durant’s eleven-volume masterpiece The Story of Civilization. Recently, in…Jan 28, 2023Jan 28, 2023
InAdam’s NotebookbyAdam RobertsPope’s GilgameshThat Alexander Pope never completed, or published, his translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh is, perhaps, not surprising. Despite the…May 81
InCurated NewslettersbyDr John Frederick RoseThe Arrogance of Inexperience.“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread”.Oct 14, 2023
Dana K FlynnAn Essay on Man’s Internal ContradictionsAlexander Pope’s An Essay on Man features existential musings regarding the place of humanity in the universe. Pope’s poem creates an…Apr 3, 2023
Brad RothThe Preface as PoetryI mentioned before in this blog that I’m reading Will and Ariel Durant’s eleven-volume masterpiece The Story of Civilization. Recently, in…Jan 28, 2023
Lynette DuftonThank You, Miss HobanMiss Hoban, 12th grade Brit Lit teacher at dear old Central High, taught us that not every well-known pithy quote came from Shakespeare’s…Jan 2, 2023
SYRead “An Essay on Criticism” by Alexander PopeAlexander Pope is one of the top satirists in the period of classism. He published his first poem, An Essay on Criticism, when he was 23…Nov 23, 2022
Karla Marie SanfordOn Remembering: Theorizing the Black Mother as Sylph“When those fair suns shall set, as set they must,May 17, 2022
