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NOTE TO J. ALFRED PRUFROCK I just dared to eat a really big peach as ripe as it could be and I have on a pair of plaid shorts and a blue tee shirt with a hole in it and little rivers of juice are now running down my chin and wrist and dripping onto
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After posting Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" a couple of weeks ago, I found myself remembering other bits and pieces of his poetry, so I got out a couple of old textbooks and went looking for them. Principal among these fragments was this, which used to be widely quoted: Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The
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LE ROI S’AMUSE Jove gazed On woven mazes Of patterned movement as the atoms whirled. His glance turned Into dancing, burning Colour-gods who rushed upon that sullen world, Waking, re-making, exalting it anew – Silver and purple, shrill-voiced yellow, turgid crimson, and virgin blue. Jove stared On overbearing And aching splendour of the naked
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The world is changing. Those words recur several times in The Lord of the Rings, and they keep recurring to me about these times and this country, and in particular over the past few weeks about the gun control debate. It seems to me that a slow transformation in the way Americans think about their country,
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Week 1: Meet the Beatles (The Beatles) Week 2: Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash (The Pogues) Week 3: Waving, Not Drowning (Rupert Hine) Week 4: Fragments of a Rainy Season (John Cale) Week 5: Rain Dogs (Tom Waits) Week 6: SHEL Week 7: Something Else (The Kinks) Week 8: Hi-Fi In Focuse (Chet Atkins) Week 9: Slow Turning (John Hiatt) Week 10: Swagger (The Blue
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DEUS, EGO AMO TE O God, I love thee, I love thee— Not out of hope of heaven for me Nor fearing not to love and be In the everlasting burning. Thou, thou, my Jesus, after me Didst reach thine arms out dying, For my sake sufferedst nails and lance, Mocked and marred countenance, Sorrows
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Billy Graham's brand of Christianity was not mine; it never has been. Even apart from the vast doctrinal distance between his evangelical Protestantism and my Catholicism, simply as a matter of what you might call style or culture, it was not for me. There was a time when I more or less despised him as
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I consider this to be one of the major lyric poems of the 19th century. A lot of people would agree with me. If I had continued my literature studies many years ago, I would have specialized in the Victorians. They understood the crisis that was coming upon our civilization with the fading of Christianity.
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I seriously considered not going to Mass on Ash Wednesday. In fact I came pretty close to not going. My reason was partly that I just didn’t want to bother, and was possessive of the time involved, because I had some other things I wanted to do that day. But the strongest reason was my
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I meant to mention: formatting poetry for the web can be a problem if the poem's format is very irregular or unusual. Simple line and stanza breaks are no problem. They do require some manual editing on my part, because when you force a line break in your word processing software it ends up being
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