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Articles 1 - 11 of 11
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Suncircles: A Prose/Poem 12/18/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Suncircles: A Prose/Poem 12/18/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
A current project is writing a book of poetry. The different kind of poetry I’m trying to write melds science, humanities, and aesthetic aims of clarity and a polished plain style with social consciousness. I’m uploading one of the poems in the collection as an example of the kind of poetry I’m trying to compose.
Frederick Ii: Holy Roman Emperor Extraordinaire, Prose/Poem 7/23/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Frederick Ii: Holy Roman Emperor Extraordinaire, Prose/Poem 7/23/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
Frederick avoided fighting the 6th Crusade by negotiating a peaceful sharing of Jerusalem by people of all faiths. No doubt it helped that he spoke Arabic and personally engaged in five months of negotiations rather than combat.
Blowin’ Against The Wind, Prose/Poem 7/17/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Blowin’ Against The Wind, Prose/Poem 7/17/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
Thoughts on Science, Contemporary Poetry and Human Nature.
To My Children, A Poem 7/10/2014, Charles Kay Smith
To My Children, A Poem 7/10/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
My children tend to take death more seriously than I do. This poem gently points them in an alternative direction.
Dante And Islam, A Prose/Poem 6/19/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Dante And Islam, A Prose/Poem 6/19/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
In this poem, Dante is revealed as a scholar of Islamic literature who was influenced by two islamic texts about Muhammad's visits to Purgatory and Hell narrated in the The Isra, and whose visit to Paradise was recorded in The Mirage. The concept of Limbo introduced by Dante in his Divine Comedy was an Islamic/Christian hybrid new to his first readers.
Soliciting The Universe, A Prose/Poem 4/1/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Soliciting The Universe, A Prose/Poem 4/1/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
Why it may not be wise to radio our presence into outer space, but why humans are compelled by their neotenic proclivities to be curious and to solicit attention.
Elegy In An American Graveyard, Prose/Poem 3/27/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Elegy In An American Graveyard, Prose/Poem 3/27/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
An update of Thomas Grey's majestic Elegy In A Country Churchyard. Our Economy is very different and so must be our politics.
Born In 1930, Prose/Poem 3/7/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Born In 1930, Prose/Poem 3/7/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
A homage to Presidrnt Franklin D. Roosevelt. In his America, political democracy was extended toward economic democracy. His policies began to be reversed in the 1980s. We are living in the desert of inequality created by that reversal.
To Mr. Death, Prose/Poem 2/21/2014, Charles Kay Smith
To Mr. Death, Prose/Poem 2/21/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
Another experimantal poem. I was attempting to achieve maximum compression.
Hadrian's Beard, A Poem 2/19/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Hadrian's Beard, A Poem 2/19/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
No abstract provided.
Morale Boost For Modernity: Stephen Greenblatt's Lucretius., Charles Kay Smith
Morale Boost For Modernity: Stephen Greenblatt's Lucretius., Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
In his book, The Swerve, on the re-discovery of Lucretius at the very end of the Middle Ages, Stephen Greenblatt wants us to believe that Lucretius’s epic poem De Rerum Natura initiated the Renaissance and ultimately made the world modern. I agree with very little of his broad brush history, but to win our assent, he creates a fable of a dark medieval world being enlightened by the genius of a Roman poet far ahead of his own time. Greenblatt wants to re-circulate Lucretius’s Epicurean philosophy to a wide modern audience hoping it will enable a widespread epicurean happiness i. …