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Oct 22, 20215 min read

Oct 6 Tennyson - Faith and Doubt In Memoriam

Queen Victoria, the longest reigning British monarch, after the death of her beloved Prince Albert was undergoing prolonged and painful...

Sep 26, 20214 min read

Sep 19 George Hebert - poet of the moderate centre

Today in 1630 the Welsh-born poet, George Herbert was ordained a priest in the Church of England, spending the rest of his life as the...

Sep 8, 20214 min read

Sep 3 The Heliand - Old Norse Epic Poem about the life of Christ

Today in 1830 the first complete edition of the Heliand was published by Johann Andreas Schmeller. This was a ninth century epic poem...

Jul 22, 20215 min read

July 22 Mary Magdalene

Today in 2016 Pope Francis passed a decree declaring a major feast day in honour of Mary Magdalene to be celebrated annually on July...

Jul 13, 20218 min read

July 13 C.S Lewis - A Grief Observed

Today we remember how the wife of C.S. Lewis died from cancer. Clive Staples Lewis was ranked eleventh on the Times newspaper list of...

Jul 10, 20213 min read

July 10 Cardinal Richelieu and the French Academy

Its 1637 and we are in Paris where at Cardinal Richelieu's urging, King Louis XIII granted letters patent formally establishing a council...

Jun 28, 20214 min read

June 29 Poet of the Spirit - Elizabeth Barret Browning

Today we travel to Florence in Italy where the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning died. Married to another poet – Robert Browning,...

Mar 31, 20214 min read

Mar 31 John Donne : Pre-eminent Metaphysical Poet

Today we remember the birth of John Donne in 1572, considered now to be the preeminent metaphysical poet of his time. A group that also...

Jan 31, 20214 min read

Jan 27 - Dante exiled from Florence

Today in 1302, we remember how the Italian poet Dante Alighieri was exiled from Florence. In exile Date wrote the celebrated work The...

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