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- Don't delay; be on your way! Dante Purgatorio, Canto 3
The contumacious are condemned to carry on wandering in Canto 3 of Dante's Purgatorio.
Translation: John Ciardi
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Dante and Virgil's encounter with the angel-guide; Cato urges the souls not to dilly-dally: Canto 2.
Translation: John Ciardi
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Dante and Virgil emerge from Hell and come to the antechamber of Purgatory. Cato of Utica and Baptism: Dante's Purgatorio Canto 1.
Translation John Ciardi
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Having come to Mount Zion, the psalmist reflects on the mercies and grace that have seen him this far.
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Happy Saint Patrick's Day! Today we have Yeats's rhapsodizing and lyrical "Sailing to Byzantium."
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Lenten Week 3: Psalms 123 and 124
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My short story "The Three and a Half Deaths of Berry Qin"
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Descriptions of nature, silence, and characterization underscore Ivan Turgenev's masterful "A Sportsman's Notebook" (Sketches from a Hunter's Album, trans. Charles and Natasha Hepburn)
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Prose stylistics in Emerson's essay, "The Poet."
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Anthony Burgess spoofs the James Bond spy novel with food contests and free will.
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