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Beowulf
Beowulf In off the moors, down through the mist-bands God-cursed Grendel came greedily loping. The bane of the race of men roamed forth, hunting for a prey in the high…
Dante’s Divine Comedy
Dante’s Divine Comedy Già volgeva il mio disio e ’l velle,sì come rota ch’igualmente è mossa,l’amor che move ’l sole e l’altre stelle. Now my will and my desire were…
Four Quartets
T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus,…
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Ovid’s Metamorphoses The Salon Intensive offers a one-meeting study that ambitiously takes an entire work in one big, energetic gulp. Participants have described this as a wonderfully dynamic approach– we…
Paradise Lost
John Milton’s Paradise Lost Paradise Lost is, as one Salon participant put it, “ …an IMMENSE piece of English Literature. The language is mind boggling, wonderful rhetorical, metaphorical moments…such fabulous imagination…”….
Song of Myself
Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself Come, said my soul,Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,)That should I after return,Or, long, long hence, in other spheres,There…
The Aeneid
Virgil’s Aeneid “Arma virumque cano. . .” “Wars and a man I sing–an exile driven on by on by Fate. . .” T.S. Eliot claimed that the Aeneid is the ultimate ‘classic’:…
The Iliad
Homer’s Iliad “Rage—Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles,murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses,hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls. . .” The…
The Odyssey
Homer’s Odyssey “Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turnsdriven time and again off course, once he had plunderedthe hallowed heights of Troy.Many cities of…
The Odyssey in Greece
Homer’s Odyssey in Greece Kayaking near Agistri We are excited to expand the studies by offering retreats that place participants in locales that reflect and expand the literature. By taking…