Lord Byron: The Perils and Glories of a Classical Education
The first group to mention are the Romantic poets such as Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. This group sought to reveal the mystical and emotional secrets of the world through their poetry. William Blake’s collection Songs of Innocence and Experience is a masterful set of poems which reveals both the cruelty and beauty in every day s
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (AmazonClassics Edition)
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In a world dominated by the merchant classes, these artists no longer had aristocratic sponsors to flatter, which was emancipating, but they had to fend for themselves in the marketplace, which brought its own traumas. To succeed, artists and writers had to appeal to an impersonalized audience, and many of these creative types came to resent their
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but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave.