Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere turning its back on the political realm.
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For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few...
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts and students grow more...
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With fiction you can talk about plot character and narrative whereas a...
Irish fiction is full of secrets guilty pasts divided identities. It is no...
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from...
The study of history and philosophy accompanied by some acquaintance with...
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and...
The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age and it was a...
Time in general has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does...
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the...
If there is anything I would do differently in my life it is that I would...
What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine.
In a spiritually sensitive culture then it might well be that age is...
The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing...
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem...
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.