Siris

Introduction Opening Passage: "My uncle always was respected; But his grave illness, I confess, Is more than could have been expe...

* Peter Kalkavage discusses Plato's Timaeus at "The Imaginative Conservative" * Problems with plagiarism of research in Eu...

Kieran Healey's joke post about Olympic sports has stirred up some interesting comments in the comments thread about what a sport is, r...

The Sisters by Alfred Lord Tennyson We were two daughters of one race; She was the fairest in the face. The wind is blowing in turr...

"The art of sketching," says William Gilpin in the third of the Three Essays , "is to the picturesque traveller, what the art...

The Epistle to Yemen is also our main source of knowledge for a more extensive messianic movement that formed around a Moroccan Jew named Mo...

Melancholy I know, think, feel the cold, hard life of black stone; the bright sun cheers but heart's tears flow in salt streams. ...