A good dog story!
In a much lighter mood from The Odyssey I turn to Billy Collins. The back cover of the book I quote from today refers to Collins’ poems as follows – “…they may, and often do, begin with the everyday and end in the infinite. Collins has managed to enrich American poetry while greatly widening the…
“Ithaca, at last”
The moive is out but as yet I have not seen it, however I think I will prefer the book! Homer’s Odyssey, an epic of adventure of the ten years for Odysseus, (Latin Ulysses) to return to Ithaca after the ten year battle of Troy! Early reviews of director Chris Nolan’s movie are full of…
“the deep heart’s core”
These past few days I have enjoyed the beauty and splendour of northern Michigan, along the eastern edge of Lake Michigan. There was a lot of pausing and pondering as the view changed at every turn. It brought to mind W.B. Yeats’ most celebrated poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree written in 1888. The real…
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