The Pearl PoetAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard This elusive author, whose writing contains so much of the sacred, the lovely, and the dreadful, is a surprisingly good […]
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The Brothers GrimmAn Authors’ Profile By Gabriel Blanchard From Poe to the Inklings to Disney, nearly all modern fiction with even a hint of magic in it descends
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A Flood Upon a Midnight Clear At the edge of the Arctic Circle, there is a custom around this time that may be well worth sharing in the
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NietzscheAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Only a few authors can claim to have foreseen (or foreshadowed) the chaos of the twentieth century, but the shadow of Nietzsche
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DescartesAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard If all philosophy can be called a footnote to Plato, all modern philosophy can be called a footnote to Descartes. From a
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MelvilleAn Author Profile By Sebastian Garren Few novels are as esteemed, as widely taught, or as misunderstood as Moby-Dick. Moby-Dick is one of the most referenced novels in
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St. Gregory the GreatAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard It is almost never true that anyone singlehandedly saved a whole community; it might be true of Gregory the
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Student Translation: The Æneid I.430-436 By Anastasia O’Donnell Virgil’s famous epic The Æneid follows the mythic history of the Trojan prince Æneas and his people, after the destruction
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WildeAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard A tagline at the head of an essay is like saying “Thank you” for an unwanted gift: idiotic, and yet indispensable. The
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DonneAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard From intricately composed love lyrics decorated with alchemical and astronomical images, to soaring meditations upon eternity and heaven, the poetry and prose
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