Plurable

We all like new things.  The new gives us a temporary high.  Having plenty of new happen is good for us.  Without new, you shrink. 

“A slender Greek maiden between two Norse giants”, is how Robert Schumann supposedly described this symphony (he didn’t).  The two giants are the Third and Fifth symphonies. The

Keats gave us two priceless gifts: his poems and his letters.  The poems capture the texture of life in a way no else has been

First contact with Emily Dickinson: the skeletal look on the page, the compression of meaning, the haunting effect. A half-dozen of her poems were printed

Baudelaire perfectly expressed the horrors of life in mid 19thcentury Paris: the downsides of the industrial revolution.  He was the first truly modern poet. Before