Looking to Leeward
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Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life” is Religious Art of the Highest Degree
An Un-explanation and De-analysis of “Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth – Poem of the Week #43
Den svenska litteraturens kronjuvel – Frithiofs saga av Esaias Tegnér (1782-1846) (veckans dikt #42)
Poem of the Week #41 – Snow-flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
American, Woman, Metaphysic? – Before the Birth of One of Her Children by Anne Bradstreet
Svenska språkets sorgligaste dikt? – Vaggvisa för min son Carl av Carl Michael Bellman
Bruno K. Öijer – 50 år av diktning i backspegeln
The Development and Legacy of Italian Poetry (The Middle Ages and the Renaissance)
Les Murray’s Best Poem? Poem of the Week #38 – Noonday Axeman by Les Murray (1938-2019)
The Poetry of the Qur’an
Veckans dikt #37 – Arv och eget av Gabriel Jönsson (1892-1984)
Veckans dikt #36 – Mitt konterfej av Wilhelm von Braun (1813-1860)
Can AI write good poetry? Putting ChatGPT to the test
Poem of the Week #35 – Ode by Attila József (1905-1937)
Poem of the week # 34 - The Heights of Machu Picchu XI (and XII, at the end!) by Pablo Neruda
On the Death of Poetry Criticism + Poem of the Week #33 – An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope
Veckans dikt #32 – En verklighet (drömd) av Gunnar Ekelöf (1907-1968)
Poem of the Week #31 – Rocket Show by James K. Baxter (1926-1972)
Veckans dikt #30 – Melodi av Bo Bergman (1869-1967)
Poem of the week #29 – Sing with the Wind by Mary Gilmore (1865-1962)
Veckans dikt #28- Östersjöar av Tomas Tranströmer (1931-2015)
Recension: Åsnans år av Athena Farrokhzad
The Masterpiece That is Tolstoy’s Non-Fiction (Part 2) - Tolstoyan Christianity
Poem of the Week #27 – Love’s Contentment by James Paulin (16th-17th century?)
The Masterpiece That is Tolstoy’s Non-Fiction (Part 3) – Tolstoy’s Theory of Art
The Masterpiece That is Tolstoy’s Non-Fiction (Part 1) - A Spiritual Crisis
A Critical Appraisal of Andrew Tate’s Poetry
Veckans dikt #26 – Lantlig Kyrkogård av Anders Österling (1884-1981)
Poem of the Week #25 – Five Bells by Kenneth Slessor (1901-1971)
Veckans dikt #24 – Den dolda solen av Kurt Almqvist (1912-2001)