By David B. GosselinAug 15, 202115 minLessons from a Grecian Urn Part II: The Paradox of the “One” and the “Many”This is Part II to the series on Keats’ “Ode to a Grecian Urn”. Part I can be found here. Chapter II: What is Poetry? The yearning for...
By David B. GosselinAug 5, 202118 minLessons from a Grecian Urn Part I: Truth and Beauty in ArtAn object is perfect, when everything manifold in it accords with the unity of its concept; it is beautiful, when its perfection appears...
By Adam SediaSep 15, 202041 minClarity and Obscurity: Eliot's MasksT.S. Eliot means many things to many different people. Like Yeats he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. In the academy he numbers among...
By Adam SediaMar 17, 201920 minClarity 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...