Student Poem: The Tulip Garden
CLT alumna Autumn Kennedy shares a poem on the plan, and significance, of a flower garden.
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CLT alumna Autumn Kennedy shares a poem on the plan, and significance, of a flower garden.
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Shakespeare’s genius is shown not only in his contributions to language itself, but in his power of presenting the emotional and spiritual fractal web of human life on the stage.
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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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DanteAn Author ProfileSecond 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 the great
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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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The resemblance between the words “mystery” and “mysticism” may be mere coincidence to us, but, as Chesterton put it, it is a coincidence that really does coincide.
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From the more obvious moral and intellectual meanings of wisdom, we pass now to something more esoteric.
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Lessons From Purgatory By Autumn Kennedy In its own capacity, Dante’s Purgatorio resembles Virgil, shepherding its readers up the sacred mountain in this life as he shepherded its
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