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Kyd and play ... the Wu Tang Clan You know the old trope: if Shakespeare were alive today he would be living in a beach-front house in Santa Monica, an obscure genius writing blockbusters for the major studios; right now he'd...
The speaker in John Donne's prayer/poem is supplicating for penance to atone for his sins of the flesh, which were on display in many of his earlier seduction poems. The early poetry of John Donne included the sensually charged...
Flowers and poetry are so last century - it takes more to woo a noughties woman Don't say it with flowers - well, not red roses. This week I stumbled across the answer - completely by mistake, of course. Women of my...
A look at the metaphysical poet John Donne, one of the most influential poets of the Renaissance: his life, his religion and his works. John Donne was born in 1572 into a Catholic family; he was educated by Jesuits at home...
If someone was visiting Indonesia for the first time over the past few months they would be justified in wondering what had happened to the nation that once prided itself for embracing Pancasila? What had become of the people...
