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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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    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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    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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    Clarity and Obscurity: The Essences of Classicism and Modernism Compared Part II -''Concreteness''
    By Adam Sedia
    • Mar 17, 2019
    • 20 min

    Clarity and Obscurity: The Essences of Classicism and Modernism Compared Part II -''Concreteness''

    In my last essay, I discussed the difference between classical and modernist poetry as a difference of worldviews. Classicism views the...
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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...
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