Death — Rainer Maria Rilke
Death
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Issue no. 82 (Winter 1981)
There stands death, a bluish distillate
in a cup without a saucer. Such a strange
place to find a cup: standing on
the back of...
Mourning Problems — Xi Chuan
Mourning Problems
by Xi Chuan
Source: The Paris Review
an ant dies, and no one mourns
a bird dies, and no one mourns if it isn’t a crested ibis
a monkey dies, and monkeys...
Eros at Play — Why the ancient erotic poems of Sappho and Wallada bint...
Source: Aeon
A woman rests in a field surrounded by apple trees. Savouring the sounds and smells of the shaded grove, she muses on the ‘sacred recess’ of her idyllic surroundings,...
I Want Only to Be a Worn-Down Stone
I want only to be a worn-down stone
on the ruins of time,
a dolmen
raised above this forsaken graveyard’s
terrain.
( Alain Mabanckou )
Source: The Paris Review Issue no. 229 (Summer 2019)
Literary movements and periods
Source: Literalism
Literature constantly evolves as new movements emerge to speak to the concerns of different groups of people and historical periods.
Middle English (c.1066-1500): The transitional period between Anqlo-Saxon...
William Blake, Radical Abolitionist
Blake’s works offer an alternative to the failures of the Enlightenment, which couldn’t muster a consistent argument for abolition.
Source: JStor
William Blake, 1807
via Wikimedia Commons
By: Ed Simon
June 5, 2019
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Albert Camus and the problem of absurdity
Albert Camus and the problem of absurdity
Source: OUP Philosophy
The OUP Philosophy list boasts cutting-edge scholarship including monographs handbooks and textbooks - suitable for graduate and undergraduate use, as well...
When Dracula Author Bram Stoker Wrote a Gushing Fan Letter to Walt Whitman (1870)
Source: Open Culture
Every artist starts out as a fan, and in general we see the marks of early fandom on their mature work. The best, after all—as figures from...
Surviving False Dawns: On Joy Division and Life in a Far Distant Suburb
Source: Literary Hub
By Justine Hyde
“As we age, we grow embarrassed at our own seriousness, from remembering being that teenager sat in their bedroom, underlining words in a book. But as...
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