These are several poems of Ernest Dowson (1867-1902). Everyone who has any knowledge of English verse is familiar with his most famous poem, “Cynara,” which has suffered the indignity of being quoted in O’Neil’s play “Long Day’s Journey” and parodied by Cole Porter.
The 17th century in Europe was a bridge between the unbridled arrogance of the Renaissance and the technocratic self-confidence projected in the Enlightenment.
Anyone who wishes to follow, in however desultory a fashion, this Italian course should register by June 10.
An informal discussion of two false ideologies that are mirror images of each other.
The great English writers of the Elizabethan era and the 17th century owed a great deal to the Renascence of classical learning, which had taken place in Italy. One aspect of this Renaissance, however, involved an attempt to revive ancient paganism or rather anti-Christian neo-paganism.
Former managing editor Katherine Dalton Boyer interviews her former boss on the days before Rockford, in this the first part of a series.
This is the first section of the first part of a series of articles on the central significance of occultism . Like many of the fathers of modern science and Enlightenment–René Descartes, Francis Bacon, Elias Ashmole, and Robert Boyle–Isaac Newton was a devoted alchemist and occultist.
Fleming and Easton enjoy a sharp exchange on the greedy Plutocrats who own–and fund–the American government.
Ezra Pound’s Hugh Selwyn Mauberley Ode is one of the masterpieces of 20th century English/American verse. Everything in the poem is difficult and elusive. The subtitle in French shows it is a kind of funeral homage to Pound himself, who features in the poem partly as Mauberley, a gentle disciple of the 1890’s who has to confront the realities of the literature business in London.
