fantasy
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Madeleine L’Engle on fantasy and the open mind
‘Children respond to anything a writer asks of them-as long as there isn’t any wax [i.e. inauthenticity] around. It’s often possible to make demands of a child that couldn’t be made of an adult. Sometimes the very acquisition of knowledge (something quite different from wisdom) can hold us back. For instance, in some of the… Continue reading
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The Seafarer
The Seafarer is a poem from the Exeter Book, a 10th century codex of Old English which sprang from a project of monastic reform and restabilisation following a long period Viking attacks and the subsequent disrepair of Christian places and their spiritual practices. The poem is mostly secular with a religious addition, possibly added later,… Continue reading
Jane Alyson Clarke 