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A Note Before the First. An index of Subjects. The subjects: 1: Kenneth Rexroth’s Classics Revisited. 2: The Tale of Genji. 3: The poetry of Daniel Huws. 4: The novels of Jonis Agee. 5: Five (or twelve) great mysteries. 6: The literature of the Blasket Islands. 7: Zen: Shunryū Suzuki, Robert Aitken, R.H. Blyth, and Brian Victoria’s Zen At War. 8: The letters of Van Gogh, Keats, Helene Hanff, and the Shaw-Terry correspondence. 9: The journals of Pepys, Thoreau and Dorothy Wor
#284: THE PAINTINGS IN THE PALACE. In February of 1626, Charles I ascended to the throne of Great Britain. That wasn’t supposed to happen: Charles was the spare, the younger brother of the much beloved Prince Henry, who by all reports was Charles’s superior in physicality, personality and popular affection. Henry had also cottoned on very nicely to one of the new ways of broadcasting political stature: he had shown great enthusiasm for the collecting of sculpture, tapestr
