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renewable ingredients for fine artistry

"The past is never dead.
It's not even past."
William Faulkner


LITERATURE

Aesop's Fables
Laura Gibbs translations (HTML)

The Holy Bible, King James Version
Genesis (HTML)
Job (HTML)
Ecclesiastes (HTML)
Wisdom (HTML)
Matthew (HTML)

Mother Goose
The Real Mother Goose (HTML)
Tales From Mother Goose(HTML)

Honore de Balzac
The Unknown Masterpiece (HTML)

Plato
Meno (HTML)
The Apology (HTML)
Crito (HTML)

Rumi
Masnavi I Ma'navi (HTML)

Emily Dickinson
The Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (HTML)



POLYSEMY recommends . . .

To understand classical education:



For classical education in the home:





ARTISTRY STUDIES

Camille Paglia
The Magic of Images (free resource, PDF)
Erich Neumann: Theorist of the Great Mother (PDF)
Cults and Cosmic Consciousness (PDF)
The Mighty River of Classics (PDF)
Religion and the Arts in America (PDF)

Andrew Campbell
Multum non Multa (PDF)

Walter Benjamin
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility (HTML)

Mortimer Adler
What is an Idea? (HTML)

Matthew Dallman
The Nature of Aesthetic Study (HTML)
The Humanities As The Integral Tradition (HTML)

Neil Postman
Informing Ourselves To Death (HTML)

John Taylor Gatto
The Underground History of American Education (HTML)



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