Texts in Context: The Secret of the Rose—Part I
Romantic love certainly existed before the eleventh century. What the troubadours invented was the idea that it was a good thing.
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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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Shakespeare: An Author Profile
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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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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What Does “The Great Conversation” Mean?
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, Continued
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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Dante: An Author Profile
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 Great Conversation: Wisdom—Part V
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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The Great Conversation: Wisdom—Part IV
From the more obvious moral and intellectual meanings of wisdom, we pass now to something more esoteric.
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