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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)
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.
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Category Archives: Spoken Word
BBC – R4 – TODAY PROGRAMME – POETIC INSPIRATION – 30/1/2013
There are moments in life when a poet knows he has become a poet: leading to a period of discovery of what source they have tapped in to and how they must go on an live their passion. My own … Continue reading
Posted in Seamus Heaney, Simon Armitage, Spoken Word
Tagged Beauty, Discovery, Drivers, Motivation, Poetry, Poets, Reality
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BBC – R4 – Great Lives – John Stuart Mill – Series 29 – Episode 6 of 9 – 8/1/2013
An interesting Radio programme examination of the life of the precociously talented J.S. Mills, who realised in his mid-life crisis at the age of 20, that emotional relations are what makes people happy. Coming from the school of Bentham this was a crisis of confidence in Utilitarian Philosophy which led J.S. Mills to the discovery of Poetry. Continue reading
Posted in Matthew Parris, Spoken Word
Tagged Beauty, Crisis, Drivers, Life, Originality, Poetry
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