Ash Wednesday
6 best books like Ash Wednesday (T.S. Eliot): The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream, Poems and Fragments, Phaedo, The Philokalia, Volume 1: The Complete Text, THE HYMN: Song of the Soul
| Author | Walter Benjamin |
| ISBN | 0141036192 |
One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are. Throughout history, some books...
Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Kubla Khan or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816. According to Coleridge's Preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium-influenced dream after reading a work describing Xanadu,...
| Author | Sappho |
| ISBN | 0872205916 |
Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts consist of a lamentably small and fragmented...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0192839535 |
The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the Phaedo ranks among the supreme literary achievements of antiquity. It is also a document crucial to the...
The Philokalia, Volume 1: The Complete Text
| Author | G.E.H. Palmer |
| ISBN | 0571130135 |
The Philokalia is a collection of texts written between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. First published in Greek in 1782, then translated into Slavonic and later into Russian, The Philokalia has exercised an influence in the recent...
THE HYMN: Song of the Soul
| Author | Anonymous* |
| ISBN | 0994644418 |
“I sing a freedom song.
I walk a victory march.
I dance naked,
and enter the void.
Follow me —"
THE HYMN is a song of spiritual awakening. The hypnotic and iconoclastic verse of this small talisman of a book is published with the hope that the reader...
