Essays on the Humanities

Ancient Culture

The Chauvet Caves: of Horses, Bison and Albino Alligators

Dante

Dante and Fortune Telling

Music? Like Hell it is! Dante's Inferno

Dante and Suicide
Virgil in the Inferno: Love Creates Chaos??
Dante: Is God Cruel?
Dan Alighierson: Dante in the Future


Asian Culture

Gao Xingjan: Of Fishing Rods, Three Lakes, and a Toilet 
Two Indian Authors, a Different India 

Shakespeare

The Tempest and Milan 
Twelfth Night - The Lost Scene (a parody)

Poetry

Thorns are Anapestic Pests 
Yeats for Children: A Faerie Song 
Roethke the Mystic 
Billy Collins - the Accessible / Forgettable Poet