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Times’ All-Seeing Eye

In Creativity by Glen Phillips

(a response to the paper “Oedipus and Nature’s Rage” by Dr Gabriela Dragnea Horvath) As I walk over the aged bricks here that pave my urban driveway’s looping form, I see profusion of gum tree …

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Then Dog Walked

In Creativity by Stuart Friebert

— for David Most of us wouldn’t regret publishing “Flush,” VW’s biography of Barrett Browning’s cocker, but she did: “I shall be very much depressed, I think . . . They’ll say it’s charming, delicate, …

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Rescue Mission

In Creativity by Glen Phillips

December 1937, Nanjing I ducked. With a thunderous rumble, more masonry fell into the open space backing the great city wall and Zhongshan Gate. Another Japanese shelling. White dust billowed sideways on the road where …

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Young T.S. Eliot

In Criticism by Werner Vordtriede

The students of Harvard University publish a literary magazine, the “Harvard Advocate.” The first poems of Eliot appeared there during his “undergraduate” years, from 1907 to 1910. They are verses of the sadness of youth, …

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The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

In Criticism by Gabriela Dragnea Horvath

Michael Wyatt, editor: The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance, Cambridge University Press, 2014 Aimed “to provide a broad framework for the interdisciplinary study of the Italian Renaissance” (xvii), the volume contains 17 essays that …

Mikhail Bulgakov: Heart of a Dog – A Reading

In Criticism by Olga Vishnyakova

Note: page numbers from Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a dog, are given in brackets, while the end notes include the other referenced texts. Truth coming only through suffering this is true, rest assured. But they …

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