PAPERS ON THE HUMANITIES

• ESSAYS from a Vermont eyrie. These are Essays in the old-fashioned sense of the word, roving notions after Montaigne with an overall sense of time passing, of my location and something about who the writer is.


• BANAUSIA: Can the Greek working man really think. . . .? A look at ancient Athens compared to modern America, with a few cautions and some regrets.


• Unraveling Mythology Greek Mythology is so popular today that we often miss the way it traces back by a tortuous route to the early Greeks and Homer .


• Pound's 'nostos' to the Odyssey We all talk about Oral Poetry and read on, but here is Pound's intimation of what Homer really sounded like, along with a new performance recording to hear.


• What is the Nature of Poetry? Here is a fresh and novel approach to Poetry as a varied and changing art which has more dimensions than printed words on a page.


• Pages of Poems or Spoken Poetry? When we read poems from a printed page in the usual intonation of our daily speech, we lose the acoustic sensibility on which world-wide poetry, ancient and modern is based. Poetry has to be "performed" rather than read silently from a printed page.!


• Dylan Thomas' late Acoustic Poetry Discussion of his new directions, with text and Performance Recording of "Lament"

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• Hyper Poetry . . . . these HyperPoems work in a continually moving and cumulatively changing verse form, inviting the eye to a new experience in slow meditation.


• The Problem of Form vs. Meaning A critical look at Form as FORM ---- apart from the sequencing of meaning.


• How to Read a Poem A guide to poetic Microstructure in three easy lessons.


• The Poet and the Spectrograph


• John Donne and Ernest Hemingway For whom does the bell toll... ?


• A Series of Mime Sculptures with a set of Poems


• A Spot in Time Instantaneous -mind drawings with intuitive comment and a background of improv. piano sound. Contd. . .


• "If a Tree fall in the Forest. . ." . . . .an extended poem, work in progress '08.


• The Kryptic World of Automatic Drawing


• We all know Housman's Shropshire Lad #25, but who was Rose Harland?


• What is Improvisation? Music, Dance, Theater, Painting and Poetry are all on the edge of a breath of improvisational thinking.


• Notes on Reading Homer closely. . . . Reading the Greek carefully, I still find things to discover sixty years after my Greek 101 course.


• PLAGIARISM IN ACADEME A new look with a very different approach and an update 2007 on the imminent Dangers of Turnitin.


• REPENT repent for the year 2012 cometh. . . .


• English and Am. Lit. in College Courses .... do they really fit in the new, global world?


• Colleges In Change . . . . the long road from 1950 to 2000


• The Intelligent Person's Short English Grammar, is an antidote for the poisonous prescriptive grammars used in the schools. Print out 17 pages for enlightening reading at your ease.


• A Manual of College Writing A satiric if sardonic manual for students on how to get through college with the best grades for the least work, how to select courses and psych out the Prof. Required reading for success in college!


• Writing Acceptable English A Century of Re-gress at 2000 A.D.


• Tales from Academe Some might think that College is all light and good cheer, these might be a partial antidote.


• I: "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Jew"       The first part of Aaron Seligmann's new book .


• II: My Uncle       and how to become a college Professor


• III: GOING TO HARVARD . . . . as William Miller goes to college in the Class of '46


• The Old Professor's retirement. . .


• A Theophrastan Character A wry description of a kind of Professor we have all known, part of the academic scene of mid-20th c. perhaps, but not an extinct species.


• American "Caucus" The origin and history of the political term.


• My Toilet The Professor lucubrates on a household problem with his water-closet, which escalates to ways of looking at life .


• Dear Mr. Melville: We regret informing you that your "novel" on whaling is not . . . .


• Moby Dick A full text in a readable/searchable format, with a list of Chapters for reference, to open in separate window or print.


• Thoreau & Emerson Is "emotional" now redefined as homosexual, as we apply the Sexual Inquisition even to the Transcendalists?


• Sterne's TRISTRAM SHANDY This is the whole of the novel formatted to match the original pagination, to be read page by page in 18th c. manner .....via PDF . It is a continuous file so it can be searched for the whole nine volumes!


• Tristram Shandy Revisited ..... a sentimental journey, along with a note: On Reading Shandy.


• GULLIVER'S TRAVELS by Jonathan Swift This is a continuous and searchable Reader's Text, formatted in short lines approximating the original 12mo 18th century format as published.


• Arden of Feversham ...to be or not to be (by Shakespeare)...? With the full text.


• Finnegans Wake Introduction to the Wake via musicality.


• On Reading Joyce and the Wake Some thoughts following the above article as a PS.


• James Joyce: Was he insane. . .?


• The Crucifixion and Petronius In Memoriam W. E. Mitchell.


• St. Paul: 1 Corinthians .13: "Sounding brass..." An interpretation based on ancient acoustics.


• St. Mark: 7.24: "Bread of the children...." A very new interpretation.


• John 8:5: The Woman Taken in Adulttery A biblical 'alien' comes up with an entirely different approach of a meditative trance.


• 'Verily, I say unto you. . . .' The KJ version's word does not represent the sense of the Greek which uses a novel 'initial Amen' for silence and attention.


• The Real Last Supper? Leonardo's great painting does not fit the Paschal service of St. Mark's evening of the Unleaven Bread.


• The Classics, a review from 1800 - 2000 Gains and losses from Classics in Translation. NEW.


• Vergils' Georgics for Green generation reading . . . and the problem of Intertextuality. NEW.


• I: Catullus 32 . . . . a new study on this frank erotic poem and a "Farewell Ipsithilla"


• II: Catullus 42 . . . . a frank review of the hendecasyllabic Elves and the dirty whore.


• III: Catullus 35 . . . . Lesbia and sexual impotence and the Rite of Cybele.


• IV: Catullus 97 and Catullus 98 . . . . a fresh look at two very dirty poems.


• Vergil the Prophet: ON IRAQ Vergil as a Western I-Ching may still have some value.


• Aristotle's Poetics and Katharsis A radical approach to the old problem of Pity and Fear, based on Greek mathematical models.


• A Requiem for Philology . . . .with a note about Harvard's redoubtable Prof. Joshua Whatmough


• CYBELE Domina Dindymi The ancient ritual of the Great Goddess attended by castrated priests, a detailed scenario, after Catullus 's frightening poem #63.


• DIDO AND AENEAS: Part I A new translation of Vergil's Aeneid I with detailed esthetic commentary and directions for use in a Studio-Drama Performance.


• "On Looking into Homer's Homer...." Centuries of change reading Homer as we drag him through translation to the Trash.


• Approaching the Ancient Epic Problems of access to Homer and Vergil, in history, society and language


• On Reading Homer... A project for independent study of Homeric Greek


• "On Translating Homer...?" Here are a few considerations beyond Matthew Arnold's famous l861 essay, from 2000.


• Reading Your Homer: What are the best translations? New thoughts beyond the above paper, from 2008.


• Sappho, Horace, Catullus and some other translations.


• Greek Mythology and Pre-History A detailed study of Greek myth as bearing the imprint of an early historical tradition.


• The Golden Mean This paper explain how the Greeks were able to use the Golden or Golden Section ratio 1.618 : 1 in art and architecture, without calculation or measurement! A new discovery in a much worked field.


• The Fibonacci Series of Numbers ...... allied to the G.M. but with differences.


• The Piano Shop on the Left Side of Route Seven South.... After reading Thad Carhart's fascinating book on a piano shop in Paris, it occurred to me that there must be interesting piano shops everywhere, so I sketched out a description of one I know well, Hansen and Son near Burlington VT.


• An Ode to the Piano..... with an Essay on Problems in Modern Poetry


• Metrics in Music and Poetry ....a dangerous limitation to mind and imagination.


• Surfing the Internet Second thoughts on the new web-world in the new age.


• Economics in Ancient Greece A new view of commerce and trade based on the mythological evidence.


• Some Thoughts on Space Brief thoughts on the nature of Space in the scale of this planet, how we deal with it, what it means.


• On New Thought in the Age of the Computers The new ways of thinking which have emerged since the spread of computers, are instant, intuitive, expansive and (basically) non-verbal - - - a bitter pill to the traditional verbally oriented Humanist.


• Books and the Bookshelf A Design Experiment in a Thousand Words without Pictures


• A Computer Aided Reading Project A review of some of the possibilities with computers, e.g. in the Yale reading programs of the pre-computer age. Directed toward practical use, brief.


• Teachers and Pay One often hears contradictory reports on teachers' earnings, complaints about too high or too low. This is a brief attempt to correlate typical academic pay with pay for similar skills elsewhere.


• Technology in the Greco-Roman World Some notes on three topics. 1) Metallurgy of steel 2) Bronze alloy 3) Beekeeping and medicine.


• .....a propos of the "World Trade Center"


• Tenure: Academic Freedom or Freeloading? A short statement about tenure, looking back after three quarters of a century since it was implemented.


• Literary Studies on the Classics .... a separate fuller list of classical articles.

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