I am sitting in a Brit Lit class. It's too cold. There is a Stevie Smith poem on the board. "Sunt Leones." There is a highly capable professor in the front of the room and some really smart people populate the room. I can't figure out what the conversation has to do with the poem. Instead, the conversation revolves around the history of religion. I suppose that is loosely … [Read more...] about New Appreciation of Poetry
Stevie Smith
Work in progress: The work began in and much can be attributed to Dr. Joe Pellegrino's 19th and 20th Century British Literature Fall '22 class at Georgia Southern University. Biography “Sunt Leones” 1937 The lions who ate the Christians on the sands of the arena By indulging native appetites played what has now been seen a Not entirely negligible part In … [Read more...] about Stevie Smith
Academic Subjects
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Welcome (again!)
Hey y'all. This site has gone through innumerable edits, updates, modifications, obsessiveness, abandonment - all of it - since I started it nearly 20 years ago. I still don't know what I am doing here. Attempts to make it "fit for purpose" fail in that the purpose is all over the place because my brain is typically all over the place. Since I started pursuing academia in … [Read more...] about Welcome (again!)