Category Archives: Poetry

Discovering Dante’s Inferno

It’s satisfying, isn’t it, when a book you read leads the way to others — where one opens your eyes to another topic, another author or another passion and off you go. I’m happy to report that the joy of discovery is still alive and well in the mind of this 50-plus reader.
A few months …

October 8, 2009 – 7:30 am | By David Morton | Posted in Books, Films, History, Inspiration, Medievalism, Poetry, The Novel, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

When the sweet showers of April …

          Whan that Aprill with its shoures sote
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote,
And bathed every veyne is swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe …

April 1, 2009 – 6:30 am | By David Morton | Posted in Chaucer, Inspiration, Language, Middle English, Poetry, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)