Hermetic America: Twentieth Century America, 1985

by: Roger Weir

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Hermetic America: Twentieth Century America

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Thursdays, Oct 3, 1985 to Dec 26, 1985

Frank Lloyd Wright @ Oct 03
The Century's Master Architect; His Controlling Symbols of the Natural House; The Living City as Settings for Democratic Women's Liberation.
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Ezra Pound @ Oct 10
Power Broker of Culture; The Breaker of Power Kulture; The Vision of Personae and the Cantos; Going Native in Medieval History.
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T. S. Eliot @ Oct 17
Protege Become Master and Mastery Absorbed Back into tradition; The American Goes Native in English History.
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E. E. Cummings @ Oct 24
The Lyric Poet's Larger Works; The Enormous Room and Eimi-Journeys to Conscious Cosmology
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Wallace Stevens @ Oct 31
The Poet of Vision Beholding: "Nothing That is Not There and the Nothing That Is"
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William Faulkner @ Nov 07
Concentrating on His Nobel Prize Novel, A Fable, His Epic of the Individual Surviving Our Mythological Armageddon.
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Tennessee Williams @ Nov 14
The Famous Cycle of Plays Where Personal Tensions Rise to Mythic Resolution
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Theodore Roethke and Robinson Jeffers @ Nov 21
Two of the Best Unsung Poets Bringing the American Experience to the Poetical Shores of the Pacific Ocean
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Thomas Merton @ Dec 05
The Spiritual Pilgrimage to Inner Christian Meditation and Outer Buddhist Meditation
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Christ in Alexandria @ Dec 12
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Khigh Dhiegh @ Dec 19
The American Taoist Master, His Epochal Commentary on the I Ching: The Eleventh Wing and the Cycly of I Ching Book of Days (1975-1983)
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A.E. Van Vogt @ Dec 26
The Science Fiction Great Whose Life and Works Probe the Interpenetration of Mind and Technology in Our Cosmic Setting Leading to the Future
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