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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 Acro...
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    Clarity vs. Obscurity: Eliot's Masks
    By Adam Sedia
    • Sep 15, 2020
    • 41 min

    Clarity vs. 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 t...
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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 Puerisque...
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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 wh...
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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 inter...
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    Clarity and Obscurity IV: Yeats and the Occult
    By Adam Sedia
    • Oct 30, 2019
    • 27 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 rel...
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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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    Poetry and the Muses Part II
    By James Sale
    • Jul 29, 2019
    • 6 min

    Poetry and the Muses Part II

    The Muses we understand from Part 1 of this article are the daughters of the future and the past, and more specifically of memory, light,...
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    Poetry and the Muses Part 1
    By James Sale
    • Jul 1, 2019
    • 7 min

    Poetry and the Muses Part 1

    Republished with permission from the author We live in a post-modernist world and its values are everywhere around us; and everywhere the...
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    John Keats vs. The Enlightenment
    By Paul Gallagher
    • May 14, 2019
    • 43 min

    John Keats vs. The Enlightenment

    This article is reprinted with permission from the author St. Augustine, the founder of Western Christian civilization, wrote, of poetry:...
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    The Power of Metaphor
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Apr 22, 2019
    • 12 min

    The Power of Metaphor

    Contrary to the sundry definitions of metaphor proffered by school teachers and dictionaries, Metaphor is not some mere literary device; ...
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    Beyond the Lines: “Mont Blanc” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
    By Adam Sedia
    • Apr 13, 2019
    • 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 poe...
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    Clarity vs. Obscurity: The Essences of Classicism and Modernism Compared Part II - "Concretenes
    By Adam Sedia
    • Mar 17, 2019
    • 19 min

    Clarity vs. Obscurity: The Essences of Classicism and Modernism Compared Part II - "Concretenes

    In my last essay, I discussed the difference between classical and modernist poetry as a difference of worldviews. Classicism views the a...
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    Keats' Great Odes & the Sublime: Commemorating the Life of John Keats (October 1795 – 23 Feb
    By Daniel Leach
    • Feb 23, 2019
    • 34 min

    Keats' Great Odes & the Sublime: Commemorating the Life of John Keats (October 1795 – 23 Feb

    This article is republished with permission from the author. When John Keats died in Rome on Feb. 23, 1821, at the age of 25, the world l...
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    Clarity and Obscurity:
The Essences of Classicism and Modernism Compared
    By Adam Sedia
    • Jan 20, 2019
    • 23 min

    Clarity and Obscurity: The Essences of Classicism and Modernism Compared

    Classical and modern poetry are inarguably different. Indeed, modernism’s chief boast is its break with classicism and tradition more bro...
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    Beyond the Lines: Edgar Poe's "El Dorado"
    David Gosselin
    • Nov 19, 2018
    • 3 min

    Beyond the Lines: Edgar Poe's "El Dorado"

    Just as the lily is repeated in the lake, or the eyes of Amaryllis in the mirror, so is the mere oral or written repetition of these form...
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    On the Birthday of Friedrich Schiller, the Great German Poet of Freedom
    David Gosselin
    • Nov 10, 2018
    • 30 min

    On the Birthday of Friedrich Schiller, the Great German Poet of Freedom

    “Trust me, the fountain of youth, it is no fable. It is running Truly and always. Ye ask, where? In poetical art.” - Friedrich Schiller, ...
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