Fire and Ice
Fire and Ice BY ROBERT FROST Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 1, 20221 min read
Being Beyond Time and Place
"Live with your century; but do not be its creature. Work for your contemporaries; but create what they need, not what they praise."...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 12, 202214 min read
Dante: He Hath Seen Well
Dante: He Hath Seen Well The painting is “Dante (He Hath Seen Well)” by Jean-Leon Gerome I've seen some get this title wrong as "He Hath...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 27, 20218 min read
Dante's Revolution of Love
Dante’s Revolution of Love “Here my exalted vision lost its power. But now my will and my desire, like wheels revolving with an even...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 14, 202112 min read
Dante's Politics of Love
“Love Makes the World Go Round.” Today is the 700th anniversary of the death of the peerless poet-philosopher Dante Alighieri (the night...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 2, 20213 min read
Dante's Sweet Symphony of Paradise
DANTE’S SWEET SYMPHONY OF PARADISE This is the foundational volume of my four volume study of the thought of Dante Alighieri. I currently...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 11, 20219 min read
Dante and Shakespeare
Dante and Shakespeare I have just caught up with this controversy. How utterly laughable – Shakespeare is better than Dante because "more...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 11, 202135 min read
Dante Integral
Salvador Dali - The Meeting of Dante and Beatrice Dante Integral These are the outlines to my Dante studies. When the writing went past...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 7, 202134 min read
Editing the Endless Love on the Unending Road
Dante’s Politics of Love In 2016 I started to write on the internal music in Dante Alighieri’s Comedy, under the title of Dante’s Sweet...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 6, 202117 min read
From the Dark Forest to the Eternal Rose - Editing Dante
Gustav Dore, Dante and Virgil gazing at heavens. "Into the yellow of the eternal Rose that slopes and stretches and diffuses fragrance of...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 24, 20219 min read
Dante and the Baptistry
I am noting the identification in some parts of the contemporary political culture of medievalism and Dante with white supremacy, far...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 14, 202131 min read
Dante : Love and Justice over Fear and Hatred
Image: Martel on the vicissitudes of heredity: Dante and Beatrice hovering before Charles Martel, who stands within the Heaven of Venus,...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 6, 20216 min read
Dante The Poet of Reality
More thoughts on Dante. I am working and thinking hard on the book that is in the process of emergence. There is a lot of reading to do,...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 6, 20219 min read
Dante the Christian Humanist
Dante incurred great intellectual risks in expressing himself in concrete terms comprehensible to uneducated minds, but these risks had...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 3, 202115 min read
Thoughts on Dante
I would like to offer some thoughts on my forthcoming Dante book, in this the year of the 700th anniversary of his death. I shall provide...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 31, 202015 min read
Dante's Symphony - explorations
DANTE’S SWEET SYMPHONY: STRUCTURE AND ORDER My Dante materials and notes, in some kind of order, if not shape. Here’s where I show the...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 10, 202050 min read
Dante's Sweet Symphony of Paradise
"Beatrice Addressing Dante from the Car" by William Blake I have been working on this book since February 2017. It started life as an...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 10, 202050 min read
Dante's Journey - book outlines
DANTE’S JOURNEY THE SWEET SYMPHONY OF PARADISE “Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 31, 20208 min read
The Beautiful Madness of Don Quixote
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 1, 202062 min read
Dante's Sweet Symphony of Paradise
DANTE’S SWEET SYMPHONY OF PARADISE SWEET SYMPHONY STRUCTURE AND ORDER OF ALL MATERIALS I set out to write a piece on the place and role...
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