Category Archives: Literature

This is what I sus­pect many will pic­ture when they read the title above: That’s Alma-Tadema’s famous paint­ing, which hangs in the Philadel­phia Museum of Art. But an arti­cle in the Sacra­mento Press describes an event that con­jures images of the frame … Con­tinue read­ing →

So my friend, a poet (who’s not a clas­si­cist but who nearly was once upon a time in col­lege), picked up a trans­la­tion of Juve­nal and had a few ques­tions for me. We nat­u­rally made a few jokes about his … Con­tinue read­ing →

I came across the fol­low­ing bits of inter­est from H.L. Mencken’s col­lec­tion of crit­i­cal essays, Prej­u­dices: First Series. I thought Eric might be inter­ested in his judg­ment of Edgar Lee Mas­ters, which includes ref­er­ences to ubi sunt poetry and the … Con­tinue read­ing →