Showing posts with label RIP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RIP. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Poem of the Day: Notre-Dame de Paris de Gérard de Nerval

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NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS Notre-Dame est bien vieille : on la verra peut-être Enterrer cependant Paris qu'elle a vu naître ; Mais, dans qu...
Friday, March 15, 2019

Poem of Some Day That Turns Out to Be the Poem of Today

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W. S. Merwin died today. ( NY Times obituary .) Here's a poem he wrote for the occasion. For the Anniversary of My Death Every yea...
Monday, December 02, 2013

Michael Kammen (1936 - 2013)

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I returned from a Thanksgiving trip to the news that my graduate advisor, Michael Kammen, died last Friday.  I hope to write something soon ...
Friday, August 30, 2013

Seamus Heaney (1939 - 2013)

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As anyone who has been online today has probably already heard, the Irish poet (and Nobel laureate) Seamus Heaney died today . It would be...
Monday, June 03, 2013

Epigraph to a Grave in Concord, Massachusetts

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God wills us free; man wills us slaves. I will as God wills; God's will be done. Here lies the body of JOHN JACK a native of Afric...
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Thursday, April 04, 2013

Roger Ebert, 1942 - 2013

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[On his impending death]: I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear....
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Aaron Swartz (1986 - 2012)

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I haven't posted on the untimely death of Aaron Swartz prior to now, because I didn't know him and didn't have anything particu...
Friday, December 14, 2012

The Latest Horror

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It's stupid, I know: yet while I really, really have nothing to say, still I can't help feel that it is somehow wrong to let this bl...
Sunday, October 21, 2012

George McGovern (1922 - 2012)

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RIP . He thinks of those who have Spoken Evil of his Beloved Half close your eyelids, loosen your hair, And dream about the great and ...
Monday, October 01, 2012

Eric Hobsbawm (1917 - 2012)

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And then yet another great historian vanishes: Eric Hobsbawm died today at the age of 95 .  And the truth is that even among great historian...
Friday, September 28, 2012

Eugene Genovese 1930 - 2012

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The great (albeit complex and controversial and problematic) historian of American slavery, Eugene Genovese, has died . My favorite quote ...
Monday, August 27, 2012

Poem of the Day: the Moon's Mourning of Neil Armstrong

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It was posted here, on Tor.com, and I hope that the author, Roz Kaveney, doesn't mind me reposting it. Endymion (For Neil Armstrong) In ...
Sunday, August 26, 2012

One Small Grave For a Man, One Giant Diminishment for Mankind

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My semester begins tomorrow, and I'm teaching two brand-new classes (more on this soon), so I've been spending full time getting rea...
Friday, July 20, 2012

Denver Massacre

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Hard to find words for such horror. Here are some who managed to find good ones: Adam Gopnik Alyssa Rosenberg ...may add more if I see more...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012

More on Ray Bradbury

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...who, as I noted in the last post , aujourd'hui est morte. ( Note on updates : I'm adding to this after posting it. Deal with it...

Ray Bradbury (1920 - 2012)

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Douglas was crying. She roused herself again. "Now, why are you doing that?" "Because," he said, "you won't be ...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Paul Fussell (1924 - 2012)

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I just saw that Paul Fussell died yesterday . It's probably inarguable that his masterpiece is The Great War and Modern Memory , one of...
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Oh Please Don't Go -- We'll Eat You Up, We Love You So!

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...And Max said "No". Terribly sad news: Maurice Sendak has died . ( h/t ) In addition to his masterpiece , Sendak wrote or illus...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Peter Novick, 1934 - 2012

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I missed the fact that the great historian Peter Novick died a week ago . His NYT obituary focuses on his (excellent, IMO) book on the chan...
Thursday, March 01, 2012

On Speaking Ill of the Ill-Spoken Dead

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In response to the extraordinarily young and horrifically sudden death of Andrew Breitbart , some liberals have been saying nasty things ( e...