Author Archive
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The Aeneid – Virgil
The Aeneid – Virgil – 29-19 B.C. Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 15 September 2001 Dryden’s labor of love, part I. I have a profound respect for John Dryden (1631-1700). In Elysium I see him presiding o...
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The Nature of Things – Titus Lucretius Carus
The Nature of Things – Titus Lucretius Carus – 56 B.C. Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 15 September 2001 A labor of love. Rolfe Humphries was an industrious translator of considerable poetic talent. I t...
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Daphnis and Chloe – Longus
Daphnis and Chloe – Longus – 200 CE Reviewed by: Anna Date: 2 December 2002 Daphnis and Chloe is a beautifully written pastoral novel that describes the trials and tribulations of two young lovers. It is a b...
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The Six Enneads – Plotinus
The Six Enneads – Plotinus – 250 CE Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 15 September 2001 The ultimate sky-hook. Readers of mine may notice that I rarely speak of fiction and prefer the term “imaginat...
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Odes – Sappho
Odes – Sappho – 620-520 BCE Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 5 May 2002 “if you are squeamish don’t prod the beach rubble” Sappho (* before 610 Ý c.580 BC.) translated by Mary Barbnard ...
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The Iliad – Homer
The Iliad – Homer – 800-725 B.C Reviewed by: Cassandra Moraes Date: 15 February 2003 I think it is the best story ever told, and even more so if you read in Greek. It has little to do with the followings epic: i...
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Boating for Beginners – Jeanette Winterson
Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 19 September 2001 If you read the author’s remarks on her own webpage, then “Boating for Beginners” is supposed to be a pot-boiler, written for the money in the time...
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Female Ruins – Geoff Nicholson
Female Ruins – Geoff Nicholson – 1999 Reviewed by: Faik Genç Date: 20 August 2002 Geoff Nicholson is a great storyteller and he is one of the shining stars of new English Literature. He writes about the Un...
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The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver – 1998 Reviewed by: Ursina Date: 15 November 2004 This book shows Kingsolver’s best qualities as an author. She has proven her story-telling ability in o...
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Quarantine – Jim Crace
Quarantine – Jim Crace – 1997 Reviewed by: Anna van Gelderen Date: 5 May 2002 The place: a dry landscape in the Near-East. The time: the early decades AD. In their tent merchant’s wife Miri notices th...
