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Grace IV: Contemplative Experience, Poetry of Grace @ Aquinas, Poetry of Grace IV Contemplative Experience, x Blogging

The Poetry of Grace Contemplative Experience IV: Part 4

by michaelgriffith1 • November 30, 2018 • 0 Comments

In today’s last session we turned first to exploring the ways in which William Blake explores the conditions that create GRACE. In his Songs of Innocence and Experience he has two songs that are about Nurses. In Nurse’s Song in Songs of Innocence he presents the Nurse in a state in which “her heart is at…

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Twentieth Century Oz Lit Poetry and Prose Part 2

by michaelgriffith1 • May 13, 2016 • 0 Comments

This week we finished our exploration of Patrick White’s amazing depiction of contemporary Australian society: its emptiness, but also its powerful potential for renewal in “Down at the Dump” and “Miss Slattery’s Demon Lover”- both in The Burnt Ones (1964). As a prelude to David Malouf‘s visit to us in a fortnight we explored “The Year of the Foxes”,…