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Reception of Ulysses at the Palace of King Alcinous - The Odyssey
The Meeting Between Nausicaa ... Banquet in the House of Alcin... Reception of Ulysses at the Palace of King Alcinous. Thus, then, did Ulysses wait and pray; but the girl drove on…Walt Whitman: What Place Is Besieged?
What Place Is Besieged?What place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege? Lo, I send to that place a commander, swift, brave, immortal, And with him horse and foot, and parks of…Walt Whitman: Roaming in Thought [After reading Hegel]
Roaming in Thought [After reading Hegel]Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is call'd Evil I…Toto
Toto the dog is a character in L. Frank Baum's 1900 fantasy story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Toto is the pet of Dorothy Gale, a Kansas farm girl who is blown "over the rainbow" into the magical land…Walt Whitman: For Him I Sing
For Him I SingFor him I sing, I raise the present on the past, (As some perennial tree out of its roots, the present on the past,) With time and space I him dilate and fuse the immortal laws…Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Spider
by EmilyDickinsonThe StormXXVIIIThe Spider The Spider A spider sewed at night Without a light Upon an arc of white. If ruff it was of dame Or shroud of gnome, Himself, himself inform. Of…The Devil's Dictionary: Manes
by Ambrose Bierce MANMANICHEISMMANES -n. The immortal parts of dead Greeks and Romans. They were in a state of dull discomfort until the bodies from which they had exhaled were buried and…The Devil's Dictionary: Outcome
by Ambrose Bierce OTHERWISEOUTDOOUTCOME -n. A particular type of disappointment. By the kind of intelligence that sees in an exception a proof of the rule the wisdom of an act is judged by…The Devil's Dictionary: Salamander
by Ambrose Bierce SALACITYSARCOPHAGUSSALAMANDER -n. Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be…Alain Robbe-Grillet
Alain Robbe-Grillet was the founder of the movement known as Nouveau Roman ("new novel"), a part of the French New Wave in literature and film in the 1950s. Because his novels and films avoid…Trending
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