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    Shall We Allow Poets in the Republic? Part III
    By Gerald Therrien
    • Aug 21, 2021
    • 10 min

    Shall We Allow Poets in the Republic? Part III

    At the end of part 2 of ‘Shall We Allow Poets in the Republic’, we came upon the proposition that poets either must be ‘possessed and...
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    Dante on Freedom
    By Louis Markos
    • Aug 16, 2021
    • 5 min

    Dante on Freedom

    Author’s Introduction: Imagine if Homer, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, and the other great poets of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages...
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    Lessons from a Grecian Urn Part II: The Paradox of the “One” and the “Many”
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Aug 15, 2021
    • 15 min

    Lessons from a Grecian Urn Part II: The Paradox of the “One” and the “Many”

    This is Part 2 to the series on Keats’ “Ode to a Grecian Urn”. Part 1 can be found here. Chapter II: What is Poetry? The yearning for...
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    Beyond the Lines: Shelley's "Ozymandias"
    By Adam Sedia
    • Aug 8, 2021
    • 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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    Lessons from a Grecian Urn Part I: Truth and Beauty in Art
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Aug 5, 2021
    • 18 min

    Lessons from a Grecian Urn Part I: Truth and Beauty in Art

    An object is perfect, when everything manifold in it accords with the unity of its concept; it is beautiful, when its perfection appears...
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    Dante: On Lust
    By Louis Markos
    • Jul 9, 2021
    • 5 min

    Dante: On Lust

    Imagine if Dante had been given the gift, not only to peer into the twenty-first century, but to correspond with we who live in that most...
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    Shall We Allow the Poets in the Republic? Part II
    By Gerald Therrien
    • Jun 12, 2021
    • 7 min

    Shall We Allow the Poets in the Republic? Part II

    At the end of the article – ‘Shall We Allow Poets in the Republic’ – we saw that reason obliged us to ban poetry from our republic, and...
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    Shall We Allow Poets in the Republic?
    By Gerald Therrien
    • May 16, 2021
    • 10 min

    Shall We Allow Poets in the Republic?

    Much has been written and read about Plato banning poets from the republic – why would he do that? The poet John Milton wrote a humorous...
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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, 2021
    • 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, 2021
    • 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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    Beyond the Lines: Ode on Melancholy
    By Adam Sedia
    • Jan 27, 2021
    • 6 min

    Beyond 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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    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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    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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