Celebrating the Life of Robert Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963)
“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” —Robert Frost To many in America, Robert Frost is the grandfatherly originator of “The...
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By Cynthia Chung
- 6 days ago
- 53 min
How To Conquer Tyranny and Avoid Tragedy: A Lesson on Defeating Systems of Empire
This is a transcription of a lecture, which can be found here, given as part of the RTF series “Art, Science and Civilization: The...
By John Martin
- Mar 19
- 6 min
What Is Art?
This isn't an essay. But it isn't a manifesto either. A manifesto is something one writes before one has started. An essay is something...
By Martin McCarthy
- Mar 14
- 6 min
Bringing Sappho to Life: The Innovative Translations of Michael R. Burch
Not much is known about the Greek poet Sappho, except that she was born around 630 B.C. on the island of Lesbos in the port city of...
By Adam Sedia
- Mar 5
- 3 min
Behind the Lines: Nothing Gold Can Stay
Even though Robert Frost was born in California, he is known as a quintessentially New England Poet. His family roots were there and he...
By Louis Markos
- Feb 20
- 5 min
Dante on Eden
Author’s Introduction: Imagine if Homer, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, and the other great poets of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages...
By Mathew Ehret
- Feb 9
- 9 min
Norman Rockwell & the Rediscovery of America’s Moral Compass
A great poet once said that you can judge a nation by how it honors (or fails to honor) its artists. In many ways, the soul of a nation...
By Adam Sedia
- Feb 1
- 27 min
Yeats and the Occult
Modernism produces obscure poetry because it denies the existence of absolute truth. Without a fundamental truth to reveal, poetry is...
By Gerald Therrien
- Jan 23
- 14 min
Beyond the Lines: “Mending Wall”—Robert Frost and the Good Neighbor Poetry
“Mending Wall” is a nice poem that tells a fun little story, about someone, his neighbor and a wall. Frost takes the old saying, which...
By David B. Gosselin
- Jan 8
- 17 min
Beyond the Lines: Shakespeare's Sonnets & the Secret to Immortality
William Shakespeare (baptized April 26, 1564 – died April 23, 1616) is arguably the greatest writer in any language. His poetry is not...
By Adam Sedia
- Dec 19, 2022
- 5 min
Beyond the Lines: “Mont Blanc” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
In his essay “A Defence of Poetry,” Shelley described a poem as “the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth.” His sweeping...
By Ryan Hamadeh
- Dec 7, 2022
- 11 min
Art, Aesthetics and Architecture
The expression of human society exhibits a dynamic and enterprising appeal. Its physical surroundings are made of still and upright forms...
By Daniel Leach
- Nov 20, 2022
- 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...
By Adam Sedia
- Oct 29, 2022
- 32 min
From Modernism to Subversion: William Carlos Williams and the Beat Poets
Although shocking for its time, Beat poetry was not unanticipated. It developed from modernist antecedents it readily acknowledged, most...
By John H. B. Martin
- Oct 13, 2022
- 8 min
Grace and Flavour: A Response to C.S. Lewis's "Christianity & Culture"
In a previous essay (De Gustibus (Et Pulchritudinis) I argued that Beauty is absolute and not relative, and is therefore not merely a...
By Daniel Leach
- Oct 6, 2022
- 3 min
Reflections by an American Poet in Florence
Standing atop the Florence’s famous cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, looking out over the wide expanse of terracotta rooftops and...
By Daniel Leach
- Sep 27, 2022
- 4 min
Aesthetic Impressions of an American Poet in Rome
“Go thou to Rome, at once the paradise, the grave, the city and the wilderness,…” Percy Byssche Shelley wrote his beautiful elegy on the...
By David B. Gosselin
- Sep 7, 2022
- 10 min
Beyond the Lines: Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
A century after its composition, Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” continues to leave readers, academics, poetry...
By Adam Sedia
- Sep 1, 2022
- 7 min
Behind the Lines: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 142
The sonnet is inextricably intertwined with the Renaissance, and stands as one of the most powerful and enduring legacies of that time....
By David B. Gosselin
- Aug 23, 2022
- 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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