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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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    The Architect's Dream
    By Dan Jabe
    • Oct 4, 2020
    • 1 min

    The Architect's Dream

    (After the painting by T. Cole) I dreamed I lay on drawing books, Atop a column, perching high, To gaze upon the world below And saw arra...
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    A Comparison of Goethe and Schiller's Poetry... by Heinrich Heine
    Original Translation
    • Sep 28, 2020
    • 7 min

    A Comparison of Goethe and Schiller's Poetry... by Heinrich Heine

    From "The Romantic School", 1835 Posted with permission from the translator. "...There was a craze for comparing the productions of the ...
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    Von Ewige Liebe (Eternal Love) Set by Brahms
    Musical Setting
    • Sep 21, 2020
    • 2 min

    Von Ewige Liebe (Eternal Love) Set by Brahms

    So dark, so dark the willow forests loom, The skies are wintered and the evening hushed. Now neither shroud nor light nor vapors rise, Th...
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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 hav...
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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 t...
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    To Flower
    By Michael R. Burch
    • Sep 13, 2020
    • 2 min

    To Flower

    When Pentheus [“grief’] went into the mountains in the garb of the baccae, his mother [Agave] and the other maenads, possessed by Dionysu...
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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
 or “William Wilson,” Poe always brings the reader into an insight of the self-deluding mind of a sick soul—and most importantly how an ignorance to one’s own undiagnosed self-delusions always leads quite lawfully to one’s own downfall.[4] Without such insight, no citizen could properly understand the potential for evil either within himsel
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    To the Distant Beloved
    By Daniel Platt
    • Sep 5, 2020
    • 1 min

    To the Distant Beloved

    The motion of thy tender, fragile heart, I hear it at the instant I awake, And thy mischievous laughter makes me quake In resonance, as s...
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