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    Leaping from Despair into Hope: The Lesson of Rembrandt’s Resurrection for Today’s Troubled World
    By Mathew Ehret
    • Apr 4
    • 6 min

    Leaping from Despair into Hope: The Lesson of Rembrandt’s Resurrection for Today’s Troubled World

    Today, the world finds itself moving through a turbulent transformation between two systems. Collapsing at a faster rate every day are...
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    On Optimism: A Chant of Darkness
    By Cynthia Chung
    • Feb 15
    • 22 min

    On Optimism: A Chant of Darkness

    “So my optimism is no mild and unreasoning satisfaction. A poet once said I must be happy because I did not see the bare, cold present,...
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    Behind the Lines: Ode on Melancholy
    By Adam Sedia
    • Jan 27
    • 6 min

    Behind the Lines: Ode on Melancholy

    An ode on melancholy might conjure the worst stereotypes of poetry: restless youth agonizing over imagined existential crises – a...
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    An Evening in the ‘Simultaneity of Eternity’—with Shakespeare, Keats, and William Warfield
    By Daniel Leach
    • Dec 6, 2020
    • 20 min

    An Evening in the ‘Simultaneity of Eternity’—with Shakespeare, Keats, and William Warfield

    The following is a workshop and dialogue on the art of classical poetic recitation. We at The Chained Muse believe that a revival of...
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    Why the Poetic Principle is Imperative for Statecraft
    By Cynthia Chung
    • Oct 26, 2020
    • 10 min

    Why the Poetic Principle is Imperative for Statecraft

    Today, perhaps more so than at any time in history, we are experiencing a divide between what is considered to be the “domain” or...
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    On Dante's 700th Anniversary: Dante's Commedia, Or How to Escape a Modern Inferno
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Oct 10, 2020
    • 13 min

    On Dante's 700th Anniversary: Dante's Commedia, Or How to Escape a Modern Inferno

    This is the accompanying article to a lecture given by the same author, as part of the RTF Lecture Series “The Renaissance Principle...
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    Book Review: Fatal Women by Kevin Roberts
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Sep 16, 2020
    • 5 min

    Book Review: Fatal Women by Kevin Roberts

    The poems of Kevin Roberts (1969-2008) are indeed an anomaly among the sea of “Modernist,” “Formalist” and “Contemporary” verses that...
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    Clarity and Obscurity: Eliot's Masks
    By Adam Sedia
    • Sep 15, 2020
    • 41 min

    Clarity and Obscurity: Eliot's Masks

    T.S. Eliot means many things to many different people. Like Yeats he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. In the academy he numbers among...
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    Edgar Allan Poe’s Metaphysics: Rediscovering “Eureka”
    By Mathew Ehret
    • Sep 7, 2020
    • 22 min

    Edgar Allan Poe’s Metaphysics: Rediscovering “Eureka”

    "What I here propound is true: — therefore it cannot die: — or if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will “rise again...
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    Profiles in Poetry: Johann Wolfgang Goethe
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Aug 28, 2020
    • 9 min

    Profiles in Poetry: Johann Wolfgang Goethe

    The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) remains...
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    Book Review: Voices on the Wind by Daniel Leach
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Aug 26, 2020
    • 4 min

    Book Review: Voices on the Wind by Daniel Leach

    It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can...
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    Plain English
    By Joseph S. Salemi
    • Jul 18, 2020
    • 6 min

    Plain English

    The poetry scene, like every human activity, has its cant and its catchwords. As Robert Louis Stevenson said in his Virginibus...
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley and the Motivführung Principle in English Poetry
    By Daniel Leach
    • May 10, 2020
    • 19 min

    Percy Bysshe Shelley and the Motivführung Principle in English Poetry

    From the beginning of mankind’s existence, as a truly human culture, Man has struggled to express the seemingly inexpressible—the idea...
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    Poetry and the Muses Part IV
    By James Sale
    • Apr 13, 2020
    • 8 min

    Poetry and the Muses Part IV

    Poetry, as we have discussed in earlier parts of this article series, depends upon the Muses and accessing the deeper self or soul within...
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    Beyond the Lines: Frost's "Fire and Ice"
    By Adam Sedia
    • Mar 16, 2020
    • 4 min

    Beyond the Lines: Frost's "Fire and Ice"

    Anyone who has ever attended a commencement ceremony in the United States has certainly heard Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” often recited...
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    Beyond the Lines: Shelley's "Ozymandias"
    By Adam Sedia
    • Jan 28, 2020
    • 4 min

    Beyond the Lines: Shelley's "Ozymandias"

    Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” is one of his shortest works, but also one of his best known, anthologized to the point of ubiquity....
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    Ghazal Culture: Exalted Nomads and Love’s Elusive Gate
    By Siham Karami
    • Dec 21, 2019
    • 24 min

    Ghazal Culture: Exalted Nomads and Love’s Elusive Gate

    Although known as a unique poetic form with roots in Arabia, the ghazal’s history suggests it is also a cultural phenomenon with an...
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    Clarity and Obscurity IV: Yeats and the Occult
    By Adam Sedia
    • Oct 30, 2019
    • 28 min

    Clarity and Obscurity IV: Yeats and the Occult

    Modernism produces obscure poetry because it denies the existence of absolute truth. Without a fundamental truth to reveal, poetry is...
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    Edgar Allan Poe and the Mask of the 20th Century
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Oct 5, 2019
    • 14 min

    Edgar Allan Poe and the Mask of the 20th Century

    BUT for the cruel aspersions upon the character and life of America’s poetic genius, EDGAR ALLAN POE, this volume would have remained...
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    Poetry and the Muses III
    By James Sale
    • Sep 23, 2019
    • 8 min

    Poetry and the Muses III

    It has long been observed that whilst the ego is useful in making daily and ordinary decisions in our life, it is less effective when it...
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