Constantine P. Cavafy, was the pseudonym of Konstantínos Pétrou Kaváfis. He was born April 29, 1863, in Alexandria, Egypt, and died 70 years later on his birthday, April 29, 1933, in Alexandria. His parents were both from the Greek community in Constantinople (now Istanbul) Turkey. Historically, this was Anatolia. He was a Greek poet who consciously developed his... Continue Reading →
Our header image is William Blake's rendition of Paradise Lost -- written for the poem. I happened to catch this from the UK ill-starred Transits magazine and noticed today is John Milton's birthday. I could not get the 6-7 am time to work particularly if I threw in the Fixed Stars. He was totally blind... Continue Reading →
Jane Austen born December 16, 1775, during the Revolutionary War in Winchester, England. She was a great writer of mystery romances. -- Pride and Prejudice is a good intro because it is short. Sense and Sensibility is the better effort. Emma and the great Persuasion are solid literary efforts with the latter her best. Northanger... Continue Reading →
Allcox, Alcott and May AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT AND ABIGAIL MAY WERE MARRIED after an unhurried engagement on Sunday, May 23, 1830, at King’s Chapel on Tremont Street, Germantown, Pennsylvania, the outskirts even then of Philadelphia. Bronson noted the day in his journal writing: [Most] Agreeable to preceding expectation, I was this day married by Rev.... Continue Reading →
Vogue Magazine, December 1926 Photograph by Edward Steichen Anderson was born on September 13 1876 in Camden, Lorrain County, Ohio. We have pegged his ascendant to 18 Virgo. Locomotive temperament. Saturn in Pisces in the 6th is an interesting placement, highlighting how Anderson used his work to create a distance from him and family demands.... Continue Reading →
Bernard Malamud always had some element of magic in his works. As we close down the 500 nativities, I began to wonder why, so I did his chart. He won two National Book Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for The Natural" that became a Hollywood Movie with charismatic Robert Redford. Hollywood did another of his... Continue Reading →
John Stuart Mill was the most influential English language philosopher of the nineteenth century, a logician, naturalist and an exponent of Utilitarianism, he is considered an intellectual powerhouse who advocated the delegate model of electoral rights and thus knowledge comes from experience, a cornerstone of liberal philosophy. Mill combined eighteenth-century Enlightenment thinking with newly emerging... Continue Reading →
Who was Tennyson? Alfred Tennyson was the most popular poet of the Victorian age. With royal patronage, Queen Victoria made Tennyson Poet Laureate in 1850 for his poetry defined an era. There was a time when his poems, particularly the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. were... Continue Reading →
daniel-sternDownload Read her magnificent bio on New World. I cannot improve on that. She is bucket with a Moon handle, a common occurrence for writers (see Emily Bronte) who write romances. She has a preponderance in the sixth house in Capricorn highlighting her hard work on her novels and since her north node is trine... Continue Reading →
Recently I have been reading A History of Modern Poetry by David Perkins, Harvard University Press, and rediscovered many a familiar poet that I haven't read in ages. John Davidson was one though I probably could not have told you more than he was "poet with Eliot connections" but that was about all. The painting... Continue Reading →
Katherine Tingley was mainly educated in public schools and then in a convent school in Montreal. She is best known as Katherine Tingley, after her third husband, Philo Tingley. Little known about her two other spouses or her family life, odd living as she did so totally in the public. Tingley née Katherine Augusta Westcott, was... Continue Reading →
Alice Ann Bailey, often called AAB, was a woman ahead of her time. Born June 16, 1880 as Alice LaTrobe-Bateman in Manchester, England at what we have reckoned to be 9:50 pm. She first married fellow Christian evangelist British Walter Evans but this union ended in divorce as Bailey's occult philosophy developed. Later, after relocating... Continue Reading →
