This author described the title "philosopher and martyr" as "son of the lightning and the light that glows / beyond the lightning's or the morning's light" in his "For the Feast of Giordano Bruno."
This author described the title "philosopher and martyr" as "son of the lightning and the light that glows / beyond the lightning's or the morning's light" in his "For the Feast of Giordano Bruno." He used a double sestina to recast the seventh novel of the Decameron in his poem "The Complaint of Lisa." He mused "Clearly the soul is the body: but is not the body the soul?" in a work that ends "Fiddle, we know, is diddle: and diddle, we take it is dee" - that work is his 26-line response to an Alfred Tennyson poem entitled "The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell." His interest in Thomas Mallory inspired the book-length Tristram of Lyonesse. He mused "Yea, is not even Apollo, with hair and harpstring of gold / a bitter God to follow, a beautiful God to behold?" in a work that begins "I have lived long enough,  having seen one thing, that love hath an end." The author of that Hymn to Proserpina, FTP, name this decadent poet who wrote an elegy for Charles Baudelaire with his "Ave Atque Vale."
This author described the title "philosopher and martyr" as "son of the lightning and the light that glows / beyond the lightning's or the morning's light" in his "For the Feast of Giordano Bruno."
{Algernon Swinburne}