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Tag Archives: Sir Francis Drake
hidden, unknowable and unthinkable
Richard Francis Burton, born in the nineteenth-century, rightfully belonged to the Renaissance, and should have been contemporary with Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake. Instead he was trapped in the century least capable of appraising his talents, confined and … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, Alfred Bercovici, Ali Bey mecca, Captain Sir Richard Burton, Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, ceremony of EI Ihram, Charles Dickens, Christopher Ondaatje, EI Medinah, Francis Trollope, Lord Bryce, seven circuits Tawaf, Sigmund Freud, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Richard Burton, Sir Walter Raleigh
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cinematic eye
Jesse Marinoff Reyes: …collagist and photographer, Marc Yankus. He and I have collaborated on a number of assignments over the years and Yankus’s work was always the “easy part.” I knew his effort would be beautiful, and possessing of a … Continue reading
spenser and the poetry of opposites
Herbert Spenser’s achievement in “The Faerie Queene” was to embody the great antitheses of the Elizabethan era: both the magnanimity and grace of the age that inspired poets and sent adventurers around the world, and the frantic cruelty that degraded … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Edmund Spenser, Elisabethan Age, Gheeraerts the Younger, John Dowland, Robert Peake, Shakespeare, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Henry Unton, Sir Walter Raleigh, The faerie Queene
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