Siris

Over at "First Thoughts" they are discussing the poetry of Billy Collins: Joe Carter Micah Mattix Sally Thomas I don't really ...

* Ralph Hitchins in a comment at Cliopatria that Douglas MacArthur used the "Only the dead have seen the end of war" line in a fa...

Lots of little rough pieces in their initial stages. In All the World Are None for Me In all the world are none for me but the whispers from...

Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer. If God did not exist, one would have to invent him. Welcome to the clandestine Enlig...

An interesting passage from Santayana's Three Philosophical Poets : There are two maxims in Lucretius that suffice, even to this day, to...

A poem by Rumi, as translated (according to Alger), by one "Professor Falconer," who otherwise I do not know: The poetry of the Or...

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. I don't know how long I'll keep up this series, but the idea of looki...