R. H. W. DILLARD  |  From What Is Owed the Dead

Notes

Canto
Ezra Pound: “Canto XXVIII”
W. R. Burnet: Little Caesar

Visions
Jack Kerouac: Mexico City Blues
Stella Kerouac: Interview (10/21/69)
W. R. Burnet: Little Caesar

Correlative
T. S. Eliot: “The Cultivation of Christmas Trees,” Four Quartets (“Burnt Norton,” “The Dry Salvages,” “Little Gidding”), “Sweeney Among the Nightingales,” “Fragment of an Agon,” “The Naming of Cats,” The Waste Land
George Barker: “Elegiacs for T. S. Eliot”

Afterword
F. T. Prince: “The Yüan Chên Variations II,” “Walks in Rome I, IV,” “Not a Paris Review Interview,” “Soldiers Bathing”
John Ashbery: “America”
Colin Wilson: The Outsider

Sheep
Caedmon: “Caedmon’s Hymn”
Theocritus: “Thyrsis”
David Slavitt: The Eclogues of Virgil
Virgil: Eclogues IV
W. H. Davies: “Sheep”
Hebrews 13:20
John 21:15-16

Requiem
Anna Akhmatova: “Requiem”
George Orwell: Animal Farm

Exile
Publius Ovidius Naso: Tristia, V, vii
David R. Slavitt: The Tristia of Ovid
Nelly Sachs: “You onlookers”
Joseph Brodsky: “Abroad,” “December 24, 1971”

Exile 2
Publius Ovidius Naso: Tristia, V, vii
Joseph Brodsky: “Anno Domini”
Nelly Sachs: “Someone comes”

Courage
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Über Gewissheit / On Certainty; Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung / Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus; Bemerkungen über die Grundlagen der Mathematik / Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics; Vermischte
Bemerkungen / Culture and Value; Philosophische Untersuchungen / Philosophical Investigations

The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians 13:12
Evangelium S. Johannis 1:1

Light
Dante Alighieri: Inferno, Paradiso
Sergio Luzzato: The Body of Il Duce
Ron Rosenbaum: Explaining Hitler
William Shakespeare: Macbeth  

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