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.
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Essays on the arts and on perception
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.
Read more“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
Read moreKeats gave us two priceless gifts: his poems and his letters. The poems capture the texture of life in a way no else has been
Read moreFirst 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
Read moreBaudelaire perfectly expressed the horrors of life in mid 19thcentury Paris: the downsides of the industrial revolution. He was the first truly modern poet. Before
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