Pan became a major figure for turn-of-the-century poets and artists.
Posted in Bates (Scott) | Also tagged "Afternoon of a Faun", Bacchae, Finnegans Wake, Guillaume Apollinaire, Heresiarch and Company, James Barrie, James Joyce, Kenneth Grahame, Mallarmé (Stéphane), mythology, Paganism, Pan, Peter Pan, Peter Weir, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Puck of Pook's Hill, Rudyard Kipling, Theocritus, Ulysses, wind in the willows |
Having just turned 60, I’ve been thinking of Teiresias. Wise though the blind seer may be, his advice doesn’t help others that much. Aging, in other words, appears to require humility.
Posted in Eliot (T.S.), Euripides, Johnson (Samuel), Sophocles, Yeats (William Butler) | Also tagged Aging, Bacchae, Carl Jung, Homer, Odyssey, Oedipus, Sophocles, T. S. Eliot, Wasteland |
As I wrote last year when the earthquake hit Haiti, all human language, even literature, comes up short when faced with disaster and death. Literature is language by humans about humans, and destruction on this scale seems to laugh narrative and image to scorn. Nevertheless, being human, we try to bring even apocalyptic disasters into a [...]
Titian, “Dionysus and Ariadne” Euripides’ The Bacchae was written 2500 years ago. Given the shape our environment is in, the play is more urgent than ever. The story involves the nature god Dionysus, who visits Thebes followed by a troupe of dancing women, the Maenads or Bacchae. Dionysus is the product of a union between [...]
