Index
Some of what this blog has covered so far:
Aristotle
- Poetics - On Michael Davis and Political Considerations
- Poetics - The Problem of Knowledge and Action
- Is Politics Reducible to Rhetoric?
- Politics Bk. 2 Ch. 9 Paragraph 1
- Ethics Bk. 1 Ch. 6
- Ethics Bk. 2 Ch. 4
- Ethics Bk. 2 Ch. 7
W.H. Auden
- Musee de Beaux Arts
- Ganymede
- Are You There?
- The More Loving One
- Epitaph on a Tyrant
- “Jumbled in the common box…”
Charles Baudelaire
William Blake
- The Human Abstract
- The Little Boy Lost / The Little Boy Found
- The Tyger
- A Divine Image / The Divine Image
- All Religions are One
Emily Dickinson
- “The Soul selects her own Society…”
- “I had not minded - Walls…”
- “Love - is anterior to Life…”
- “To hang out head - ostensibly…”
- “Publication is the Auction…”
- “My Triumph lasted till the Drums…”
- “The Sunset stopped on Cottages…”
- “Had I not This, or This, I said…”
- “I should not dare to leave my friend…”
- “I’ve nothing else - to bring, You know…”
- “My Reward for Being…”
- “The Earth has many keys…”
- “The heart asks pleasure first…”
- “What I can do - I will”
- “When night is almost done…”
- “To fight aloud is very brave…”
- “Read, sweet, how others strove…”
- “Success is counted sweetest…”
- “So has a Daisy vanished…”
- “Our share of night to bear…”
- “There’s a certain slant of light…”
- “The power to be true to You…”
- “I’ve seen a Dying Eye…”
- “These are the days when Birds come back…”
- “If I can stop one heart from breaking…”
The Federalist (Hamilton, Madison, Jay)
- Federalist No. 9: On the Improvements in Political Science
- Federalist No. 10 (1st paragraph): On Faction
- Federalist No. 84 (selected portions): On Rights
Robert Frost
- Mowing
- Meeting and Passing
- Bond and Free
- The Pasture
- Hyla Brook
- The Oven Bird
- For Once, Then, Something
Martin Heidegger
Hopkins
Thomas Jefferson
Immanuel Kant
- On Susan Shell’s “Kant’s Theory of Property”
- The Problem of Power in “Perpetual Peace”
- The Problem of Reason in “Perpetual Peace”
John Keats
Amy King
Abraham Lincoln
Friedrich Nietzsche
- Towards a Nietzschean Understanding of Politics: Notes on “The Case of Wagner”
- Nietzsche on Education and Possibility
- On The Nature Of Teaching: Regarding Three Aphorisms from Beyond Good and Evil
Plato
Ezra Pound
William Shakespeare
- “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
- “The expense of spirit in a waste of shame…”
- “That time of year thou mayst in me behold…”
- “When to the sessions of sweet silent thought…”
- On Macbeth
Gary Soto
Wallace Stevens
Alexis de Tocqueville
Virgil
Ludwig Wittgenstein
William Butler Yeats
- Easter 1916
- Sailing to Byzantium
- Leda and the Swan
- When Helen Lived
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree
- The Choice
*end authors*
Music:
- Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
- Weakerthans - Aside
- Weakerthans - Sun in an Empty Room
- Weakerthans - Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure
- Death Cab for Cutie - “Lightness”
- Bob Dylan/Elliott Smith: “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”
- Why? - Sanddollars
- On “La Boheme”
- On Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”
Movies:
*end arts*
Selected Poems:
- I am away from my computer
- A Daughter to her Parents on Their Anniversary
- Enfolding
- Bachelor
- Wolcott’s Heraldry
- Good Friday
- Place
- Still Life
- Investment
- An Impassioned Beauty Speaks
- Learning
Selected Fiction and Travel Narrative:
- Meals
- Puppy Love
- Dreaming in America
- Collegium in Costa Rica