Showing posts with label Beowulf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beowulf. Show all posts
Thursday, November 28, 2019

From Beowulf to Milton's Satan!

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800 or so years in 16 or so weeks: Literary Survey and Vision-Quest (or so I hope) Join the fun at CCSF in San Francisco
Saturday, November 19, 2016

Play-Time: From the Medieval to the Renaissance

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The manuscript poster-- Spring 2017: English 46A Come join the fun! I'll make it as memorable as I can.
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

The Winding and Unwinding

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THE WINDING AND UNWINDING The shape of your thought Entices me Quite as much as The thought of your shape. Clay-minded, Bloody-brai...
Saturday, December 12, 2015

HWAET!

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Lead figurines from the 1970s: orc-warrior vs. Spear-Dane.
Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Winter Solstice Beach Lit

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Waterside reading/listening for the turning of the year.
Friday, December 20, 2013

Wael-Seax: The Slaughter-Knife of Beagnoth

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A replica of the famous Anglo-Saxon weapon fished from the Thames. To give you a sense of the size of this mere "knife", ...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Seamus Heaney: The Boat-Funeral from "Beowulf"

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Shield was still thriving when his time came and he crossed over into the Lord's keeping. His warrior band did what he bade ...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

Considering Hrothgar

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In the original Beowulf , Hrothgar is both a good king and a king beset by woe from outside. I like that situation, that model, better than ...
Friday, October 25, 2013

The Journey

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Sculpture mix, unfired. I am yearning for kelp.
Saturday, October 12, 2013

Autumnal Reprise: Brecca

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Study Session

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"The labor we delight in physics pain."           --Macbeth from Macbeth (2.3.46) I believe it's best to take that line ...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Heaney: Beowulf Takes His Trophy

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from Seamus Heaney's translation of the Old English Beowulf, a favorite passage of mine.  But then most of the poem qualifies as such...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

Brecca, Bull From The Water

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Brecca in the stream. The air bubbles in his eyes --or are those water bubbles?-- are particularly effective, don't you think? L...
Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Aeschere's Echo

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Or, "Field of Confusion"? Or, "The Woodman's Spectre" or "What the Wolf Left"? Originally, I called this ...
Friday, February 25, 2011

Grendel's Mother's Cave

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Last night, I had a series of vivid, disturbing dreams. I only managed about four hours of sleep between coming down from teaching my night...
Monday, November 29, 2010

Brecca on Deck

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Another "chess" piece: Brecca, the Bull--Beowulf's foe/companion in the swimming match. I like the wet "planking" be...
Saturday, October 30, 2010

Hrothgar's Pawn

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Here's another piece from the chess set I never finished. A pawn, I guess. Another minotaur of sorts. Actually, I think of the piece a...
Monday, August 30, 2010

Grendel's Heirs

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GRENDEL'S HEIRS However, it befell me that I with my sword slew Nine nicors --sea-monsters.              --Beowulf, in Beowulf (...
Thursday, January 21, 2010

Brecca the Bull

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A figure of fun, but no Unferth. This is my small envisioning of Brecca, Beowulf's opponent/companion in that swimming competition amids...