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Fernando Pessoa The Fernando Pessoa House has a unique treasure: the private library of this great literary figure. It’s not very often one can find an entire library belonging to a writer with Pessoa’s universal dimension.
- Sophie Hannah Official Sophie Hannah Website
Constantine Petrou Cavafy The Cavafy Archive website was created by the Center for Neo-Hellenic Studies and is owned by the Onassis Foundation. It contains all of Cavafy’s major works in the translation of Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard (edited by G.P. Savidis)
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Category Archives: Foolish Poet (Musings)
CULTURAL DEMOCRATISATION OF THE SUBLIME
A interesting essay in The Times by James Marriott (Deputy Books Editor) “Are we stuck in a time loop reliving the 60s and 70s“ discusses whether the ‘cultural wasteland’ theory, that our society is incapable of new ideas and trends … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, democracy, Sublime
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HAPPINESS: MEASUREMENT OF LIFE
Inspired recently by the conversations with people with whome I work (re-thinking pharmaceutical development), together with the writings of Immanual Kant – What is enlightenment? (1784) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall… ) and Santayana George Santayna – The Sense of Beauty – Being the Outlines of Aesthetic … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Happiness, Life, Prose, Reality, Thinking
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