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poor “cohort”
“Cohort” means a body of soldiers: a battalion or a regiment, something like that. A pure Latin word, it has been in English for hundreds of years. In Milton’s Paradise Lost God sends the archangel Michael down to expel Adam … Continue reading
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Tagged Byron poetry, Byron The Destruction of Sennacherib, J.D. Salinger, J.D. Salinger The Glass Family, Legs Diamond, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Milton Paradise Lost, Peter Paul Rubens, Reubens paintings, Salinger Raise High The Roof Beam Carpenters
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garden of earthly delights: paradise lost and better forgotten
Very few paintings in the history of art have puzzled viewers as “The Garden of Earthly Delights”. Perhaps both the godless and the god fearing, the hedonist, the Apollonian and the Dionysian, and those addicted to instant gratification can draw … Continue reading
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Tagged Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, Dirk Bax, Henry Miller, Hieronymous Bosch, John Milton, martha Clarke Garden of Earthly Delights, Milton Paradise Lost, Stanley Meisler, Wilhelm Fraenger, XTC Andy Partridge, XTC Colin Moulding
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The inferno on a cold January night: air conditioned pure essence
“The Divine Comedy” is one of the great imaginative creations that have been put onto paper. It is sometimes considered the greatest Catholic poem as “Paradise Lost” by Milton is the great Protestant poem. It forms the basis of Italian … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew O'Hehir, Christopher Hitchens, Dante, Dante Alighieri, Deepak Chopra, Eugene Delacroix, Harold Kushner, Henry Holiday, Jimmy Breslin, Jimmy Breslin The Church That Forgot Christ, John Lovitz, John Milton, Maimonides, Milton Paradise Lost, Penn Jillette, Richard Dawkins, Tony Blair, William Blake
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US AND THEM: THE MADCAP LAUGHS
Henry Fuseli’s painting “The Mandrake” , now lost, struck the aging Horace Walpole as “shockingly mad, madder than ever, quite mad!” But Fuseli would hardly have regarded that as an insult. Much of the time he was trading on madness … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Price, Donizetti, Dr. Georget De La Folie, Dr. Georget psychiatrist, Ernst Gombrich, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Liszt, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, George Crabbe, Gericault, Goethe, Henry Fuseli, Holman Hunt, Horace Walpole, John Buchan, John Everett Millais, John Milton, John Milton Paradise Lost, Joseph Anton Koch, Lord Byron, Milton, Milton Paradise Lost, Philip V. Allingham, Shakespeare, Simon Schama, Sir Walter Scott, Stanley Kubrick, Tasso, Theodore Gericault, Thomas De Quincey, Torquato Tasso, Wilhelm Heinse, William Blake, William Holman Hunt
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AESTHETICS OF APPETITE:SHE PLUCK'D, SHE EAT
IIts the ontology of the appetite. Food as a metaphysical concept. And its consumption to the point of gluttony as an aesthetic. It is an emotionally charged symbol that dates from the Biblical Genesis and humanity’s fall from grace. Heck, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Jonson, Bill Clinton, Dame Dorothy Sayers, Dante Alighieri, Deborah Shuger, Georges Bataille, Gluttony, Hieronymous Bosch, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, Joe O'Connor, John Milton, Marco Ferrera, Mario Romano, Michael Pollan, Milton Paradise Lost, Nathan's Famous, National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, Philip Fernandez-Armesto, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Regina M. Schwartz, Takeru Kobayashi, William Kerrigan
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