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"People have been created by God with an aesthetic faculty that demands cultivation." Leland Ryken "The artist needs to be complemented by the cultivated amateur, who...has some idea what to do with the artist's work." Northrop Frye
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- 9
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- Sep 25, 2026
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The Long Road Home (opens the original)
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The Melancholic (opens the original)
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(De)Enlightenment (opens the original)
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(De)EnlightenmentText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedIn hatred of what Light reveals, Of glory and deformity, We stab our eyes and claim to see The truth that garish Light conceals: Alone, alone, alone are we, Ignored by mindless matter, free To make of our Uncertainty (As did the mythic mother, Eve) A god to whom we turn and kneel.I have been reading about the Enlightenment(s) for the past several months and one thing stands out
The Poetic Vision of Macbeth (opens the original)
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Of Collective Nouns (and Gerunds) (opens the original)
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