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5 Mar 2021, 12:01 am
Contemporaries cited absinthe as shortening the lives of Baudelaire, Jarry and poets Verlaine and Alfred de Musset, among others. [read post]
28 Dec 2015, 6:28 am
Brundage (The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession; Canonists, Civilians and Courts, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008, p. 477) wrote that as the professional group of lawyers became more prominent and more successful, criticism also increased: Theologians, merchants, preachers, popes and poets complained that lawyers were bloodsuckers, hypocrites, sacrilegious, foul-mouthed, devious, deceitful, treacherous, proud and arrogant. [read post]
5 Oct 2010, 7:25 am
.* Touchingly, it looks to me like the most significant national holiday of Portugal celebrates the nation's greatest poet, Luís Vaz de Camões. [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 12:58 am
Whatever Mr Nubo's motivations for his project, this episode does demonstrate how suspicious people are of China, and of how little soft power China actually has, particularly in the West.Indeed, the most believable analysis I have heard of the project itself is that China wanted to help Iceland out and so it sent over a property developer/poet/cat lover/arctic explorer with connections to the Icelandic Social Democratic party to invest in the one area of Iceland's economy where… [read post]
10 Feb 2020, 1:54 am
The culture that Disney has crafted for us is not, it should be said, the high culture of the arts that the poet Matthew Arnold described as “sweetness and light. [read post]
19 Oct 2022, 2:04 am
As the famed poet Maya Angelou once said, “When you know better, you do better. [read post]
20 Feb 2013, 7:55 am
The poet in question is one "Shaun Shane," a pseudonym. [read post]
21 Nov 2013, 2:51 pm
We've seen it happen with a glassy-tongued poet and an over-sensitive lighting company that doesn't like negative reviews and even Ecuador, and we've even been the subject of a bogus DMCA demand ourselves filed by a wire-fraudster extortionist. [read post]
6 Sep 2011, 4:52 am
The ingenious librarian, who bestowed upon it so fitting an appellation, might have written above its entrance the dread inscription which the Italian poet affixed over the portals of his Inferno, 'They who enter here, leave hope behind.'" Yet, Thompson feared abolition literature the most: Fanaticism in all its forms, but worst of all in that fell shape of modern abolition, which, with impious tread, has dared to confront the presence of the Divine Majesty… [read post]
20 Oct 2009, 7:08 am
So here, as we take a moment to consider the sorry circumstance of these Maine children who, many years ago, were injured while at work, let us take a moment to reflect on "The Golf Links," a simple verse penned by the American poet, Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn. [read post]
9 Apr 2010, 9:30 am
"I like to call Brooklyn the 'Creative Capital of New York City,' and we have Mac-lovers everywhere--from Williamsburg's indie musicians and the poets of Fort Greene to the artists and tech startups of DUMBO and the more than 30,000 visitors who attend our internationally renowned Brooklyn Book Festival," said BP Markowitz. [read post]
11 Dec 2015, 7:35 am
. ↩︎ As the poet Jack Gilbert says in “A Brief for the Defense” We must risk delight. [read post]
21 Jan 2021, 4:36 am
Instead, it was a lovely American experience, highlighted by the radiant Amanda Gorman, our Poet Laureate. [read post]
5 Sep 2009, 6:09 pm
Some, frustrated poets and comedians, do it as a creative outlet. [read post]
26 Mar 2019, 12:34 pm
Q2: What Justice enjoyed a reputation as a minor poet? [read post]
29 Oct 2019, 1:36 pm
While there, he gave me a book of Persian poetry as a gift, the Gulestan or Rose Garden, by Sa’adi, a much loved thirteenth century Persian poet, and the pride of the city where I worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer. [read post]
5 Oct 2010, 12:29 pm
.* * * * * A long-time friend asked me the other day what I thought of the poet Gary Snyder. [read post]
26 Feb 2015, 7:50 am
I got through my science/math/bio requirements in college through a Physics for Poets class in which I got a B+ by writing a speculative essay about antimatter derivative of 1950s Heinlein essays. [read post]
7 Mar 2010, 4:32 pm
For Further Reading: Poet Ruth Stone would not be granted standing by the Ninth – she was up too early, didn’t have a key, and felt “isolated like a rabbit” in the home. [read post]
19 Apr 2019, 1:01 am
Hirsh Glick (1920-1944), a poet and partisan in the Vilna Ghetto, wrote the Partisan Hymn when he heard about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. [read post]
