On First Looking into Chapman's Homer. John Keats YouTube Version
Ulysses. Alfred Lord Tennyson YouTube Version
Ithaka. C.P. Cavafy YouTube Version
The Soul selects her own Society. Emily Dickinson
Here's an NPR piece that one of our guest speakers, Brian Maurer sent us: Crusty Patient Helps Shape Doctor's Career
January 7. Emphasis on Emily Dickinson See pages about her on this blog
January 14 Joe Eck: Wallace Stevens’ Sunday Morning, and I would like to read
Wayne Winterrowd: Andrew Mavel's To His Coy Mistress.
Nina Piazza: "Lament for Chen-tao" - Du Fu
In winter's first month from ten provinces
sons of good families--
their blood became the water that stood
in the marshes of Chen-tao.
The moors were wide, the sky was clear,
of battle there was no sound:
forty thousand imperial troops
had died on the very same day.
Bands of Turks were coming back
wiping their arrows clean,
still singing their nomad songs
they drank in the capital market.
Citizens of the capital turned
to face the north and weep,
day and night they keep looking
for loyalist armies to come. .
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