Tennyson’s Ulysses as Shakespeare’s Hamlet? (Edited)
The sources for Tennyson’s great poem Ulysses are almost as, shall we say, polytropic as Homer’s Odysseus. But one of them, I am convinced, is Hamlet’s soliloquy in Hamlet 4.4,…
The sources for Tennyson’s great poem Ulysses are almost as, shall we say, polytropic as Homer’s Odysseus. But one of them, I am convinced, is Hamlet’s soliloquy in Hamlet 4.4,…
Some notes on Confessions 4.4.8-9.
A student once called me “vaguely pagan,” which I did NOT appreciate. However. While I’ve shared several epigrams from Book 1 of the Greek Anthology here, today I give to…
Bad rulers thoughtlessly breathe decrees, ignorant that their subjects do not have a breath to spare.
