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Kierkegaard, Browning and Dramatis Personae
I’ve been reading Browning for the last two or three years–but only here and there, a little at a time. He’s like strong drink: in the right amount, he sweetens and deepens experience; in the wrong...
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Browning’s Influence on Philosophers
A bit of a side-step here. I want to write about Browning and Kierkegaard, but I thought I would first mention something about Browning I find of interest. Browning decisively influenced the thinking...
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Easter Day, Robert Browning (Poem)
Here are the opening lines of Browning’s awesome “Easter Day“. Although my primary intent is eventually to say something about the relationship between Browning’s dramatis personae and Kierkegaard’s...
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Browning and Kierkegaard on Oblique or Indirect Communication
Browning from near the end of The Ring and the Book: …learn one lesson hence Of many which whatever lives should teach: This lesson, that our human speech is naught, Our human testimony false, our fame...
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Dog Pause
Sorry to have left things hanging with Browning and Kierkegaard. I rescued a dog last week and have been busy working with him, getting him used to my routine and to the house rules and to proper...
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The Long Hello
“Truth may be flashed out by one blow”, no doubt, but it is more often won by the slow gestation and maturing of normal experience. Spiritual truth, certainty of God, the immense significance of...
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John Herman Randall, Jr. on Bradley’s Book of Life
I compare reading JHR’s peculiar paper, “F. H. Bradley and the Working-Out of Absolute Idealism” (JHP Vol 5, No 3 July 1967) to trying to find a penny on the floor of a room in which the only light is...
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A Bit About Joe Henry (Link)
A Mark So Fine: Joe Henry and YouFiled under: america, Browning, Day to day life, music, writing
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