Siddhartha - Chapter 3

The two ascetics find Gotama and Govinda leaves his friend. Play Siddhartha - Chapter 3 Download Siddhartha - Chapter 3         Art: wall painting in a Laotian temple, depicting the Bodhisattva Gautama (Buddha-to-be) undertaking extreme ascetic practices before his enlightenment. A god is overseeing his striving, and providing some spiritual protection. The five monks in the [...]

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Poem of the Week - Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave?

After giving up writing fiction, Thomas Hardy brought out a first group of Wessex poems, some of which had been composed 30 years before. During the remainder of his life, Hardy continued to publish several collections of poems. Ford Madox Ford in The March of Literature wrote of him: "Hardy, in fact, was the ideal [...]

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Poem of the Week - To Spring

To Spring is the work of William Blake (1757-1827) an English poet, visionary, painter, and printmaker. Once considered mad for his idiosyncratic views, Blake is highly regarded today for his expressiveness and creativity, and the philosophical vision that underlies his work. As he himself once indicated, "The imagination is not a State: it is the [...]

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The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock

J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot's speaker in this poem, looks out on the world from deep inside his private feelings. Its now-famous opening lines, comparing the evening sky to "a patient etherised upon a table," were considered shocking and offensive. Download The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

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