Definitions of philosophy II
I read and think quite a bit. However, when it comes to Western philosophy, it has always felt like a...
Of wine and poetry
Here we have a poet and a vintner who connects the magic between wine and poetry. Wine can be poetic...
Of perfumed poems
Be sweet, be useful, and even be true
It seems Horace wanted to fulfill this injunction, intending his poems to be ‘helpers of humanity’.
Perhaps another reason his...
Of words, wording and eternity
Part of my blogophyte journey has been to learn about some of the technical workings of the online world, among...
Wine and humility
Horace, it seems, drank humble wine and was himself a humble man. I loved this use of wine as an...
Rules of engagement
Where I have failed to appreciate some of the most enduringly esteemed works of literature, it has often been due...
Poetry as redemption
Harry Eyres’ book is as much about the nature of poetry as about Horace, and I was struck by this...
Freedom gained?
What is freedom? Options? Room for manoeuvre? Time? Carte blanche and blank cheques? Absence of censorship? Self-mastery? Purpose?
Recently I’ve...
The stuff of wine
Harry Eyres is a poet and a vintner, and his book on Horace is a delight that will be reviewed...
Horace’s idyll
Horace wrote the original script of all our Tuscan dreams of sun-opened flowers and hilltop villas.
‘O you who rejoice...
These Italian hills…
Though I’d jig a hornpipe if I saw one, I love this vivid viper of glass-green, and can imagine cooling...
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