Homer: An Author Profile
The principal literary quality of this, perhaps the most shadowy of all the figures on the CLT Author Bank, is a little ironic.
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The principal literary quality of this, perhaps the most shadowy of all the figures on the CLT Author Bank, is a little ironic.
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In fairness to Alice, judging by our recently-concluded tour of the wonder-land of ideas, we must concede that the books generally do lack pictures. Conversations, however …
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Dante An Author Profile Second Canto: Vita Nuova By Gabriel Blanchard From the depths of political, personal, and spiritual defeat, Dante went on—”God knoweth how”—to write one of
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The canon of literature is like a lofty tower, composed by hands that seem superhuman (for “there were giants in the earth in those days”). Yet one poet surpassed storied Babel; for he did “reach unto heaven, and make a name.”
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Many people don’t get nearly as much as they could out of their education, because they never learn one thing: how their own minds work. We’ve got a few leads on that.
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The Renaissance was a pivotal historical period which did not exist, and lasted for one century that began in 1300 and ended in 1650, give or take fifty years in both directions. These, at least, are the impression one might take away from reading a randomly-chosen handful of modern historians.
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Few figures in our Author Bank have life stories as dramatic as Olaudah Equiano’s—an “interesting narrative” indeed …
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Tolstoy An Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard One of the pivotal figures of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and radicalism, Tolstoy was (as we must surely expect by now)
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We mostly think of teaching as what a book or teacher tells pupils, and that’s true as far as it goes. But a great deal is also told to pupils by the things books and teachers do not say.
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