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Tag Archives: Jules Bastien-Lepage
purgatory joan : rehab for the maid in heaven
Joan of Arc had a string of minor successes culminating in a marvelous victory at Patay, where the French allegedly lost three men to 3,000 for the English. This seemingly miraculous event, as well as the liberation of Orleans, was … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Joan of Arc The Maid, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Jules Quicherat, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Perceval de Cagny, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Cauchon Bishop of Beauvais, The Hundred Years War, The Vigils of Charles VII, Trial of Joan of Arc
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nothing that ain’t: leaky vessels
The great Roman poet Lucretius seems to take the affirmative side in our unending debate in whether reason and logic can solve all our problems. But his verses were charged with agonizing doubts in his superb poem The Nature of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Atheism, Bertrand Russell, Charlie Rose Lucretius, Christopher Hitchens, Democritus, Epicurianism, Epicurus, Fernand Fau, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Leucippus, Lucretius, Lucretius The Nature of the Universe, Lucretius The Nature of Things, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maurice Mac-Nab
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vulnerabilities
it is not hard to be convinced that Nathaniel Hawthorne was born to write in the manner of Dickens and Balzac. In The Blithedale Romance he did. There are gothic furbelows attached to the novel, also-spook stuff and mystifications to … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Trollope, Edgar Allan Poe, Harold Bloom, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Louis Vivin paintings, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
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