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A canto by canto commentary on the concepts and intentions behind The Divine Comedy.
Inferno: Cantos I-VII (Virgil, Circles I-IV, Paolo & Francesca, Ciacco) Cantos VIII-XIV (Circles V-VII, Farinata, Pier delle Vigne, Capaneus) Cantos XV-XXI (Brunetto Latini, Geryon, Circle VIII, Manto) Cantos XXII-XXVIII (Vanni Fucci, Ulysses, G. da Montefeltro, B. de Born) Cantos XXIX-XXXIV (Griffolino, The Giants, Circle IX, Ugolino, Satan) Purgatorio: Cantos I-VII (Casella, Manfred, La Pia, Buonconte, Sordello ) Cantos VIII-XIV (The Gate, Nino, Oderisi, Salvani, Sapia, G.del Duca) Cantos XV-XXI (Free Will, Nature of Love, Adrian, Hugh Capet,Statius) Cantos XXII-XXVIII (Forese, Bonagiunta, Souls, Guinicelli, Arnaut, Matilda) Cantos XXIX-XXXIII (The Divine Pageant, Beatrice, Lethe, Eunoë) Paradiso: Cantos I-VII (The Moon, Piccarda, Mercury, Justinian, Romeo) Cantos VIII-XIV (Venus, Cunizza, Folco, The Sun, Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventura, Dominic, Francis, Solomon, Mars) Cantos XV-XXI (Cacciaguida, Florence, Jupiter, The Eagle, Saturn, Peter Damian ) Cantos XXII-XXVIII (Benedict, Gabriel, Peter, Paul, James, John, Angels) Cantos XXIX-XXXIII (The Empyrean, The River, The Rose, Bernard, The Virgin, The Final Vision)...
A critical study of Ovid's Metamorphoses hyper-linked to the preceding translation.
I The Golden Honeycomb II The Dual Paths of Art III The Structure of the Metamorphoses IV Ovid’s Interest in Myth V Nature,The Matrix VI The Power of the Gods VII The Nature of the Male Gods VIII The Nature of the Goddess IX Justice, Moderation, Order and Rights X Anger, Vengeance and Destiny XI Magic and Prophecy XII Fate and Error XIII Lust, Love, Sexuality and Betrayal XIV Loyalty and Marriage XV Pride and Vanity XVI Respect and Impiety XVII Crime and Punishment XVIII Ovid’s attitude to War and Violence XIX Tenderness, Pity, Pathos and Regret XX Ovid’s Civilised Values, the Sacred Other XXI The Later Influence of the Metamorphoses XXII The Wings of Daedalus...
A modernized translation of one of Geoffrey Chaucer's poems.
Modernized translation of one of Geoffrey Chaucer's earlier works.
A new, complete, downloadable, English translation, with hyper-linked in-depth name index, and comprehensive notes.
The Banquet, Dante's commentary on three of his canzoni, providing an interesting background to the philosophy of the Divine Comedy.
Han-shan, the Master of Cold Mountain, and his friend Shi-te, lived in the late-eighth to early-ninth century AD, in the sacred T’ien-t’ai Mountains of Chekiang Province, south of the bay of Hangchow. The two laughing friends, holding hands, come and go, but mostly go, dashing into the wild, careless of others’ reality, secure in their own. As Han-shan himself says, his Zen is not in the poems. Zen is in the mind....
Collections of original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.
Deep Fields Out of the Dark Digging in Into the Fiery Darkness Passing Listening to Transience Seeing, Not Capturing The Meeting Pool Out Here After Long Concentration Beautiful, Shifting Light The Midnight Eye Sounds and Branches Neither One of Us Maker Emotions Move Longings No More Keeping It In Mind News-Time Nameless-River Falls Now The Rain Has Gone Three Poems of the Hills Memory Everything On Fire All the Forms of the World Now the Light is Shining Heart-Stopped Awake and Aware World of Dust The Fact Unforgiving Agenda The Visitor Tranquil Days Thin Air Sleek Birds, Desperate People In the Mountains I Feel Free In the Presence of Natural Beauty ‘The Mountains of themselves are Mountains’ This Side of Lethe Winnowing Freedom Line of Sight The Invisible One All Change Now Clearing Reclaim A Flow of Dream Fracture Ariel Interiority The Trees Are Honest Looking Outward, Seeing Valley Path at Night between Trees Birds of Thought It’s Shared Quiet, Diamond Bright Crisis! What Crisis? Tonight, I Dream of You Creating Space Beached He Leaves Us Behind Uncreated Space Br...
Wayfaring Parting A Dream Of The Sea Passage The Perfect Hour Shower Navigation Beyond In Which We Shine How Near New Muse Being Not Metaphor Without Raging Troubling The River-Bend Leavings The Mind-Muse Not Performance The In-Itself Outside Itself Anonymous Long After Nowhere To Flee Substance And The Void One Long Ridge Poetry Can Do Didactic Too In the Valley Why Be Lonely? Black Flowers Diamond Eye They See Through and Past You Terrestrial The Wall Gift Of The Ring-Makers The Error The Happy Traveller Desperations Fragments of Crystal White Air Passing Wasp Est-il Paradis? Be Free After The Climb Mist In The Meadow Ours To Do Slope By The River Light In The Air Grass Is An Institution Possibility The Burning Man Signs in the Stone Nothing Else Will Green Ways Listening to the Movement The Long Soft Sighing of the Tide The Lark in Eternity, the Hawk in Time Strange Self Almost a Clue Wind in the Poplar Naming the Names Lighter Mouth The Changelings Months Of Grace Mind What Is Solid Bright, You Rise Evening Hour Over-World Self Aside Thoughts In The Shade Forb...
Dark Matter A Figure Seated In The Twilight After The Flurry, Under The Moon March Winds Considering An Index Of First Lines Moor-Deep A Portable Inferno A Stirring Of Leaves Exhortation To The Self-Inventors Sun On Stone Light On The Lake Dale The Underlier Road-Kill Far Shores Heimat One Last Look The Walker In The Dead Of Winter The Sleeper Contemplating The Salvation Of Freedom The Nameless Ones The Glass Man A Curlicue In A Comfort Tree Luminous Night Pigeon In The Mirror Peculiar Harvest The Mountain In The Mind Nothing To You, Everything To Me Mind Music The Proper Study Past Is Prologue Here And Not-Here Tender Spirit Spring! Holding Hands By The Fire: Winter You Can Write A Poem On Anything The Voyeur of Self In The Guise Of The Other In the Light Of The Lamp Green Twilight Considering The Portrait Index Of First Lines...
Quietly Respect the Creatures In the Fire How Far Mind’s Gift Feel the Black Soil Sing Not Simpler Out of the Other Language Loosing Go Han Shan’s Mountain Plum Buds Diving Seeing World This Place Immortal, Ephemeral Going Past One Universe, Shining Empty Meaning Moon-Slope Cool Breast If Not Spirit Road Night-Bird The Free Trail Make the Soul Silk Screen Age of the Child Crystal-Crazed Night-Ride Old World Road Word-Play Zen-Riddance Inward Destruction Night-Voices A Prophecy Sky-Drift February Blue Un-Revelation Anti-Scepticism Real Elementals To Think a Thought Slipping By One River Solids Hitching Other Lives By Dreaming Recapture Tremor Another City Free At Last Patience Traps Wellsprings Puzzles Imperative Granite, Cloud America Brine Be Free Absolutism Un-Waning Another Kind of Faith Energy, Moment and the Individual Index Of First Lines...
I: The Depths Outside Goldcrest Fences Civilisation Doorway No Silence Un-Confessional Deer Inattention City Meditation Absence All Kinds Hill-Fort Whitethorn Earth-Flame That Strain, That Churning Un-Managed Alone Find Silence Going Owl-Cries II: The Citadel of Mind Ancestral Mapping Wilderness As Selves River Things The More And Less Mind-Clothes Every Child Intense Denial Hawk in Winter Abyss To Know Is Not To Feel Patience Not As It Seems Candle Transformation Moment Beauty Yearning III: The Sacred House Going Beyond Give After Them Open, More Open Life Is Coming From Cyllene Sacred House Tangles Cycle Few Sea Voices Not For Ever Others’ Hands Face to Face Over and Under Pupa Muse Mouth Refuge Involution Poetry For those IV: Values An Die Geliebte Values of Light Dark-Light Once Only Aspire Falling Back Blade of Tao Leaves Mercy Flute Falling Time Blind Truth Deneb, Great Star Deepening She Scorpius Work It Meta-Fear Naming Moon-Fog Index Of First Lines...
A collection of the author's original poetry centered around the themes of spiritual search and individual identity in the modern world.
Loose, Shifting Ghost Incantation Soul’s Mirror Trying To Make It Behind the Words Reflection No One Mind and Its Light Babel’s Tower Core Remains Word The Book Grave Goods Stranger You Build the Tower Birthing Your Image The Singing Here The Name River We Can Listen Writing Me I Entered Lances The Kingdom of Nothing Folded Rock In-form Me What We Have Wing of an Eyelid Breaking Down Weighing Benedico Poetry Not Till I Touch You Blue Eyes of The Sea Daedalian The Poem City The Net The Voice If I Had Known Where Are The Leaves? Orpheus Looking Back At Earth Index of First Lines...
Cool Dawn Light The End Of History Under Clumps Of Pine What To Be? White Cloud Drifts Beyond the City The Real Makers Into Quiet Air Sleeping, Waking Listening In The Clearing Empty Mirror Form Is Void Just As It Is Dawn World Nothing There Washing All Grass Mountain Zen Trust In The Heart In The Space Inside Direct Pointing Night Magic Not Our Place Backwater Old-Time Sages Logic, Compassion Power Failure Among Dark Leaves Seen/Unseen No Transmission The Guarantee Gazing At The Pattern Still Clinging Go With The Fixity No Fuss The Empty Stream Phantom Grass Voice Let Go Not Natural Always In The Realm Of The Spirit At That Moment Empty Shores A Deeper Mood Credo Black City Echoes It Doesn’t Come From Nowhere Tiny Spaces Are Gigantic The Trackless Track Values In The Grass Dawn, Bamboo, Freedom Dolphin Simple Firelight Forces Inside Plenty Of Time Little Knots Nature Keeps Writing On The Rock-Face Don’t Believe No Ought In Nature Lost Empires Beautiful Freedom, Shining Hills World Of Forces A Concert We Were There, Wherever There Was Leaf-Fall Earth In Her Elements Do...
Where? Unlike Alphabet Time Free of All Fire Sacred Night Air Clay Portrait Presence Time Whales Brushstrokes Kingfisher Mind, the Maker Dance Afloat Wild Blue Eye The Value Your Mind After This Intensity The Photograph, the Hand Now and Here Little Sun Song The Passage Entangled Clouds Chance Meeting Anonymous Dead Echoes True Being Sings Water-Gazing Sun in Trees Making Civilisation, Lovely Through the Glass Burn Trip Stops How Long? Pigeon Spiral Without a Word Nothing Else Sitting Foolish Futures Ess-ence Orbit Joining On High Cliffs The Form Within Outside Haven Index Of First Lines...
Try It Yourself The Silence, The Light World Shore This is the Tree Darkling Sands We Make Be Clear Seeing, Choosing Nightfall Inwards The Death of all Religions Smoke No Power The Question Baudelaire Perfect Citizens Trees Some Solid Stonework Love Song Outlier Ice/Fire Cosmological Constant On Snowy Hills Infinite Room No Idea Dies Blessed Mountain Trails Mind-Meeting Your Heart Winter-mouth Remembrance Amelanchier, Pieris, Aware Craving Carriers The Light The Journey Blue, Luminous The Age Deer Walk Through at Night In the Flames Mind-Zen Performing Art Translate Obvious Falls The Force Reality is Local Deeper then the Root Field-Mouse Arrows Ilium Re-visited Signs of Eternity Refined Nine Paintings of Paul Klee Water-Gazing The Ideal Departure It We were Why we meet here The Hero Simple Your Name Fields Masks Shoreline Simpler Surprised Entangled The New Voices Planters Sunlight On the Edge Love Conquers Rain then Stars Cloud thoughts A Text Forever In You Swallow The Call (A Photograph) At Night Closer Wake Seasons Mind-Water Primitives Tha...
A new collection of the author's original poetry.
Burning:1 Burning 2 Un-Meaning Answering Stones Architectures No Track One Leaf Direction The Seas It Doesn’t Last Tangled History, Futures Programme Singing In The Silence Human Gatherers Of Light Powerless Directions Mind Through You I See Make Riding The Earth Orbits The Silent Fire Arrow-flights Turnover Beyond Specifics Night Music Experience Not By Naming Getting There Looking Back One Pure Mindless Flow Why We Are Here Between Layers All That Freedom Go Through Later The Same River Chinese Lanterns Angular Branching Fir The Force Between Not An Inch Brush Cityscape ‘Master of Heights And Distance’ Transparent Sideways On Revealing Mind All One Mind-Dance Neither/Nor Moving Earth The Secret Earthshine Good And Empty Sacred Purposeless Ease Quieter Siva On The Wall Classics Heritage Flotsam Stone Age Unreal City Deep Alba White Silk All Movement Fragile Give, Resist Love The Peace of Dark Getting Naked Star-Bound Chinese Wisdom: Very Ancient Thousands Flaw Elsewhere Power Not Alone Index of First Lines...
Vision Ambiguity Of The Idea The Sunflower And The Heliotrope Dawn Island Of Perception The Feeling Of A Feeling Gulf The Winds Fandango Of Time Pomegranate Without You, In You Gift Of The Already Given Communication Is A Purpose Of Meaning The Arbitrary Is Not Art The Bronze-Feathered Bird No Emperor No Platonic Spaces Very Old Are The Stars The Force A Basin Filled With Water Pike Is Pike And Not More Everywhere, Nowhere Identity Retrieved From The Sea The Face Leavings Amethyst, Argent, Sable Nature’s Order, Not Our Order Mind Is A Passion Of Its Own Creation Beyond Imagination No Wilful Obscurity Reality Is Imagination’s Mirror. More Serious Or Less? No Way For All Septet Immortality Is Deceptive Another Meaning Of The Sun Body Cooling, Your Mind Goes Cold? No One Watching Seal States Of Awakening In Louisiana Music And Meaning Products Of Motley Selection Courts Of The Night Keep It Real Its Movement Is The Drama In The Mind At The Full Far Enough, High Enough, To Turn Back Woman The Pillar And The Flame Netsuke Unaccompanied Sonata The Blue-Flowered Weed The Age Of Empathy Th...
White Birch Life’s Irony Chauvet Far East Getting to Grips with Myth Words For A Western Scroll Be Not Afraid Simply Complex At The Edge Scanning Deeper The Path By The Field The Reality Inside Which We Imagine Quartering We’re Getting There, Back When Not Laughing, Gloating Fire Outside, Fire Within Higher, Deeper Such Stuff The Finding Understanding Mind Old-World Path Anthropocene For the Rest… Threnody Veils and Crowns Every Constellation Only a Pattern of Mind The Folded Thing Pollen In The Air Not There Until You Made It There The Purple Flower Can A Polar Bear Stare Upward? The Word A Hurricane Deeper Sound Not Bamboo Time Slipping For A Moment Bearing In Our Hands: Bearing In Their Hands Indiscretion Abstracted At the Back of the Eye, the Whole Universe, All TimeSomething Under The Stars Motes In The Eye of Noon The River Bird, Flight, Moon Moving Pictures A Diamond in Every Pebble Saying Goodbye at the Edge of the Road Singing On The Shore The Lark Ascending Immersed In Time How We See Form Time To Come Tiny Manifesto The Place He Built The Pure And The Impure Meadow Medi...
Voiceless Banners Blowing Purify Your Mind Beautiful Attachment Baths All The Creatures Golden Grass Intricate Structure, Strange Lives Not Easy, Not Careless Kyoto Three Ways For the Spirit Moonlit Walk It’s A Long Time Now Every CreatureCultivars How Do You Climb? The Opposite of Deadly Going Quietly, Harming Nothing The Colour Blue Whose Idea Were Cities? Big Snow Mountain Ten Billion Splinters Fragile By Starlight Dancing in the Eye of Night Seeing It Near Benares (Or Elsewhere) What Are You Saying? Before the Felling It Freely Works Without Us Matter Is Spirit: Both Are Process Our Power Is Silence Not Platonist Rehearse Infinity No Fuss, No Claims The Reverse Side In Flight Low Slopes There’s a Way Near Conjunction Inanimate: Not Dead This Afternoon Tryst. The City Mad Clouds Infinitely Free The Island Ice-Burning Perverse Thoughts About Communication Every New Freedom. Where We Are Going The Warm Eye of Deer All Gone, Weak Each of Us Fails in Our Own Way Not All Articulate, or All-Flowing Sound-Waves in the Night Delight is Best Letting the Objects Breathe Is It Poetry? ...
Reductio Circuits Vision Wordless Light Frost at Night Garden The Silent What We Have Given Tale Passing Seethe, Flow, Fire England Back Then No Easy Words So Vast, So Small Dark Light Long-Exploited That Place Rehearsing All Things Human Over All the Planet Attending to World This Alien Tongue Sky All This Society Pacific Coast Pillow Talk It Took a While Scroll Elsewhere East Again This Place Back Where We Began Happening Those People At Dead Of Night O Universe Mutualisms The Silent Not Simply Self Night-Piece Too Much Mount Lu Meditating, Mountain Moment The Other Side of Silence Fall Bright Bird Her Sensitivities Nothing Returns The Un-opening Gate You, Futures Clear Creek White Sky Ash All of it Bodiless Think, Meditate, Contemplate Pine, Yew Entering Leaving Capital Given It Shines Where We Are Now Beaches not Buildings Not Blind Harsh Days High Cliffs Cormorant Flows Through, Not Seen ‘In every pebble there is a jewel’ Hanging in the Void Heroes What We Hear on the Hill They Sit Quietly Unborn Mind Atheist’s Song Seeking Echoes Civilisation Oh, You K...
Physics Test The Gate: the Grip Meeting Climb Fearful The City Life-Fire How Long? After the Poem Mind So Fragile Here In The Sacred House Invariance You and I Critique High Flying Reading Hume Secret Writings No Correlation Tide-way Something In The Heart Mind Between Or We Would Fail In The Night The Imagined Dead The Web The Museum The Spirits Bedrock To A Singer Surprised Never More Clothed Swifts In The Bright Sky Of The Heart Sweet Complexity Breathe All That Dance The Lovers Of Life Cold Light Of Day Bonfire The Gate Of Grass Make It New Mind Is Root Free Thought Bridges Forests All Their Names Testify Moonstruck Not Yet Excess Post-Modernity Simply Complex Noa Noa A Song Minds Of The Machines Cry Of Your Blind Hands Elegy For A Poet As Nothing Else Does To A Child Not Reason Tracery Index Of First Lines...
The poems of the Canti below are complete but not in their originally published order. I have taken the liberty of re-arranging them into four groups, Personal (Poems 1-11), Philosophical (12-24), ‘Romantic’ (25-34), and Political (35-41). These categories are not exact, as Leopardi frequently blends elements together in the one poem, but they may help the reader, as they helped me, to adjust to his variations in style. The original published position of each poem is given in Roman numerals in the brackets following the poem’s title....
1. To Silvia (XXI) 2. The Infinite (XII) 3. The Evening Of The Holiday (XIII) 4. To the Moon (XIV) 5. Saturday Night In The Village (XXV) 6. To Himself (XXVIII) 7. Night-Song Of A Wandering Shepherd of Asia (XXIII) 8. First Love (X) 9. The Solitary Bird (XI) 10. Imitation (XXXV) 11. Scherzo (XXXVI) 12. Moon-Set (XXXII) 13. Wild Broom (XXXIV) 14. The Calm After The Storm (XXIV) 15. Masterful Thought (XXVI) 16. Love And Death (XXVII) 17. Bas-Relief On An Ancient Tomb (XXX) 18. On A Lovely Lady’s Image (XXX1) 19. To Spring (or Of The Ancient Myths) (VII) 20. Hymn To The Patriarchs (VIII) 21. Sappho’s Last Song (IX) 22. To Count Carlo Pepoli (XIX) 23. Fragment (From Simonides I: XL) 24. Fragment (From Simonides II:XLI) 25. The Dream (XV) 26. The Solitary Life (XVI) 27. To His Lady (XVIII) 28. Memories (XXII) 29. The Re-awakening (Il Risorgimento: XX) 30. Consalvo (XVII) 31. Aspasia (XXIX) 32. Fragment (Alcetas and Melissus: XXXVII) 33. Fragment (Separation: XXXVIII) 34. Fragment (Turned to Stone: XXXIX) 35. To Italy (I) 36. On the Proposed Dante Monument in Florence (II) 37. To Angelo Mai (III) 38. F...
Sweetly in the Silence For – March Wind Cascades Life The Being Part Discipline Barely Respite Out West One Mind Making Small-Scale Communion Covenant Nothing but Love Encounter Poetry, Charity White Mare Too Many People Age of Images Climbing in Spirit on Endless Hills Thoughts of Genji Entanglment Dream Little Words for Tao Ch’ien Sleeping Nowhere Wavering The Only One Viewing Burne-Jones’ Perseus Series No More Keep It Fluid Scale Scrap-Yard Diatribe In the Gallery Dimensionless A High Singing East-West, All Over Earth Murasaki Small Hours Mysterious Minds Of Light But Your Reality Star-Flower Self-Admonition Subterranean Rivers Out Over Strangest Flower Fecit Deep in the Long Grass Lullaby The Joy-Givers How Wholly How Little Time Is Plants and Stone Altitude Simple Fires Coitu True Notes Deer Trails White Bamboo I White Bamboo II Not For Sale Celebrate Considering Tao for Beginners Delta Only One The Task of Art Mountain Sighing Sign for the Human Race A Toast to Monsieur Mallarmé Solitude, My Beauty Dark Main ‘In the interstices of your spirit’ Intimacie...
A new Anthology of 1400 Quotations from the complete works arranged by theme.
Commands Compassion, Empathy, Mercy and Forgiveness Compliments and their Opposites Conscience and Doubt Constancy, Trust and Faith Courage and Cowardice Crime, Punishment, Justice and the Law Death and Fate Dishonour, Dishonesty, Inconstancy and Betrayal Doctors, Illness, Medicine England and Elsewhere Freedom and Imprisonment Friendship Good Advice and Bad Good Wishes and their Opposites Happiness and Sadness, Humour and Gravity Honour and Honesty Kings and Kingship Journeys and Travel Language and the Arts Learning, Literature, Wit, Wisdom and Foolishness London Love and Jealousy, Hatred and Envy Lust, Desire, Passion, Sexuality Madness and Sanity Magic, Astrology, Superstition, and the Supernatural Men Music, Song and Dance Myths and Fables Nature , Trees, Flowers, Creatures Ownership, Money and Possession Prayers, Pleas, Curses, Threats and Promises Pride and Humility Rank and Status, Power, Order, Custom and Authority Service and Slavery Sleep, Waking, Dreams, Visions and Imagination Sons and Daughters Theatre, Drama and the Stage Time Truths, Truisms, Proverbs and Philosophy War and Co...