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Rubric for Reading:
Who gave ‘Classics ’ pride of placement?
Where did ‘Classics ’ come from?
When did ‘Classics’ get so called?
What did ‘Classics ’ call or call on?
Why did ‘Classics ’ get the call ‘first class’?
How may ‘Classics’ own a call now,
not so much to cap our screens as lend them
language tools & smarts to climb Amanda’s hill & ours.

From the roots in Illinois almost countryside to retrospection via cities, countries, schools from the standpoint of Brooklyn & New York: engaging Virgil, Archilochus, Derek Walcott, Mantuan & David Mus.

Queries crisis for Classics & proposes a response

From the roots tracing stages, steps and threads

From the roots tracing stages, steps and threads

My first general exploration of metapoetic resonance in Theocritus, while in communication with Chico Rossi in Rome & in active engagement with the recent work of Gilbert Lawall

My first general exploration of metapoetic resonance in Theocritus, while in communication with Chico Rossi in Rome & in active engagement with the recent work of Gilbert Lawall

Translating Idyll one, translator calls attention to mythic matters that had been occluded by Theocritus but would be more explicit in Virgil: Pan ‘primum’ & ‘primus’ inventing the musical pipe, erotic mediation via proffer of said pipe [subtexts suggested by Eobanus Hessus when he adapts language from eclogue two]. Arethusa’s plight & rape.

My first general exploration of metapoetic resonance in Theocritus, while in communication with Chico Rossi in Rome & in active engagement with the recent work of Gilbert Lawall

Translating Idyll one, translator calls attention to mythic matters that had been occluded by Theocritus but would be more explicit in Virgil: Pan ‘primum’ & ‘primus’ inventing the musical pipe, erotic mediation via proffer of said pipe [subtexts suggested by Eobanus Hessus when he adapts language from eclogue two]. Arethusa’s plight & rape.

My first general exploration of metapoetic resonance in Theocritus, while in communication with Chico Rossi in Rome & in active engagement with the recent work of Gilbert Lawall

Basic reading of Theocritus

Basic reading of Theocritus