It is not right to urge one who loves you to justify their love by elaborating their reasons for loving you. This only leads to misunderstanding and difficulty. Faithfulness is the greatest measure of love ( Read more... )

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Who says elegies can't be absolutely beautiful? Reading Spenser's elegy on Philip Sidney, Astrophel, was extremely moving to me, more so even than Milton's Lycidas.

Here is a favourite few stanzas, about Stella discovering her Astrophel dying:She when she saw her loue in such a plight ( Read more... )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros

The Ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a snake or dragon swallowing its tail, constantly creating itself and forming a circle ( Read more... )

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GE17Aa01.html

I want to be a Catholic after reading this article. Why can't I find his books anywhere? Every little citation I read of this man's writing is pure gold.

I again made some cuts to my livejournal friends list. It's nothing personal if I removed you. I just wanted to keep my friends page limited to the entries I'm more likely to read or take an interest in.

I'm done Sidney's Arcadia. Now I'm going to start Thomas More's Utopia and compare the artificial paradise with the natural paradise I've been studying lately. I plan on doing that in my journal, so keep an eye out for it, all you lucky people!

Also, at PiPtalk, a woman named Tima and I are going to start an overview study of poets and poetry in ( Read more... )

John Ruskin on the distinction between ambition and the will to learn:"The place you desire," and the place you FIT YOURSELF FOR, I must ( Read more... )

The classes I'm taking next year, as I decided yesterday:

• a second-year Shakespeare course.
  
• an Honours-level Chaucer course.
  
• an Honours-level "Topics in Canadian Literature" course.
  
• a first-year World History course.
  
• introductory Italian.

Unfortunately, it's still going to be ages before I'm comfortably reading Dante and Boccaccio. Maybe I can find ( Read more... )

Ever-pensive ( Read more... )