(for Eliot’s essay “What Dante Means to Me,” go here) I.Late in life, T. S. Eliot hoped the essays of his that would last would be those “appreciations of individual authors,” saying he had written best “about writers who have influenced my own poetry.”[1]He had come a long way from the essays written in his…
Month: October 2012
Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many, by Erik Hornung (Favorite Passages)
Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many, by Erik Hornung [p. 8:] There is no end to the question of the gods and their meaning. [p. 11:] …one cannot deny that the problem of the gods tends toward the infinite and has no final solution…. Anyone who takes history seriously will not…