Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
The opening paragraphs of Christopher Bollas’ “Meaning and Melancholia: Life in The Age of Bewilderment””: In Of Plymouth Plantation Governor Bradford (who arrived on the Mayflower) confronted the aftermath of a…
It’s heading into midsummer. So, the perfect time to post a short poem about autumn. “Stealth” by Howard Stein (who has an interesting bio)captures the transitory, and elusive, nature of…
On what would have been my father’s 87th Birthday this poem by Robert Wrigley seems fitting. It captures something of the tension between the worlds of literary endeavour and the…
Deep Purple/Soir Indigo: Information from the YouTube page of the above: “Deep Purple” composed by Peter De Rose was first published in 1933. The piano composition became very popular…
In winter, summer seems impossible. In summer, so does winter.
At The Frailest Thing blog, L.M. Sacasas identifies something I’ve often noticed and wish there was a handy word for: Steven Pinker and Jason Hickel have recently engaged in a…
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is a poet whose stellar reputation of the late 19th and early 20th Century is rather in eclipse, to say the least. No doubt his star will…
A few weeks ago I posted tracks from this album as part of the ChoralMarch blog series. It is hard to believe the cover of this album – with Notre…
Séamus Sweeney 