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The Wolf and the Lamb: Prudence in the Face of Injustice
“The right of the strongest is always the greatest,” La Fontaine writes in “The Wolf and the Lamb,” a disturbing fable about the overthrow of justice by a powerful and...
Mutabilitie: Change as Tyrant
Do you seek out change, or view it as a destructive force? Edmund Spencer, in “Mutabilitie,” imagines change as tyrannizing over the lives of men to gain glory for her...
The Wife of Usher’s Well: It Fell About the Martinmass
Is it dangerous to cling to the departed, when it is time for them to pass into the afterlife? The folk poet of “The Wife of Usher’s Well” seems to think so. Join Erik...
Epithalamion: An Unusual Invocation
If you've completed high school English, it's likely you've heard of the standard "invocation of the muse" invoked by epic poets such as Homer and Virgil. What would h...
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Does absence make the heart grow fonder? John Donne, our poet who believes so strongly in the united souls of lovers, asks himself what happens to this harmony when th...