HeyJaredApple Blossoms in a Mournful Wood
Reflections on great books from the Eastern and Western traditions, with a focus on Dante, Shakespeare, and Montaigne.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 13
- Latest publication
- Sep 30, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 23, 2026
Latest issues
The Darling Buds of May (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedShall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou o
The Tomb of Poetry (opens the original)
Read excerpt
<img alt="white and black floral window curtain" class="sizing-normal" height="2000" src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1600118020999-f0e0f4e3d10e?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwyOTd
Those Constant Stars, Thine Eyes (opens the original)
Read excerpt
<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="679.8832417582418" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dMeY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F147facbe-b83b-4c49-a4a6-131e5a61b2
Et in Acedia Roma (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedTristi fummo / ne l’aere dolce che dal sol s’allegra / portando dentro accidioso fummo. - Inferno VII An August sky, a dome, a bridge. sapphire-shot air, a poet priest saw Theotokos within, inscape of inscapes. No more. Such sights now merely oppress, cloy, sorrow. Dante, wrapped in sheaves of cheapest paper, in backpocketstuffs (materialists in their cups, their crypts, their cuffs). The serpentine streets, leaden, centurie
The Weeping World (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedIs it for fear to wet a widow's eye That thou consumest thyself in single life? Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die. The world will wail thee, like a makeless wife; The world will be thy widow and still weep That thou no form of thee hast left behind, When every private widow well may keep By children's eyes her husband's shape in mind. Look, what an unthrift in the world doth spend Shifts but his place, for still the wor
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.