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From Mere Bellies to the Bad Shaman, 2
(This second section juxtaposes in a somewhat speculative manner two key texts in the Western canon by Hesiod and Plato, using a favourite but hardly authoritative text by Julian Jaynes to get a handle on the argument, which is based … Continue reading
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Tagged Achilles, Aritotle, Athene, Deiphobus, Hector, Helicon, Hesiod, HOmer, Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Julian Jaynes, Jung, Plato, Socrates, The Iliad, The Muses, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, The Poetics, The Republic, The Theogeny, Zeus
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Heroes and Homilies (1)
(This talk was delivered in the summer of 2014 at Bede’s World as part of their lecture series, and to accompany an exhibition curated by Roger Wollen, ‘Myths, Memories and Mysteries,’ which focussed on a number of contemporary artists influenced … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Alice Oswald, Bede's World, Beowulf, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Christopher Logue, Ezra Pound, Gawain and the Green Knight, HOmer, J.O. Morgan, John Donne, John Dryden, Joyce, Lavinia Greenlaw, Lindisfarne, Patience Agbabi, Robert Henryson, Roger Wollen, Seamus Heaney, Shakespeare, Simon Armitage, Tennyson, Testament of Cresseid, The Battle of Maldon, The Canterbury Tales, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Troilus and Cressida, Virgil
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Love and the Romans, II
The great period of the love elegy, in which our five poets thrived, is actually quite brief. One hundred years, roughly, takes us from Catullus’ birth, around 84 BC, to Ovid’s death, in exile in Tomis in AD17. Within about … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustus, Burns, Catullus, Cicero, Cynthia, Delia, HOmer, Horace, James Hogg, Julius Caesar, Lesbia, Ovid, Philip Larkin, Propertius, Robert Fergusson, Tibullus
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Holocaust Memorial Day Reading
(This piece was written in February 2005 for the Blinking Eye website. I was judging their competition, and they asked me for something for the site. Every year for the last three years the writers associated with Newcastle University — … Continue reading
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Tagged Bennett Hogg, Cynthia Fuller, Duska Radoslavjevic-Heaney, Gillian Allnutt, Holocaust Memorial Day, HOmer, Jack Mapanje, Julia Darling, Lewis Watson, Linda France, Margaret Wilkinson, Newcastle University, School of English, Sean O'Brien, Statius, Walt Whitman
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