Bøker av Thomas Festa

Earthen offers poems meditating on grief and passion, their interrelations, their beguiling renewals. Charting an individual path from experiences of death and divorce, through childrearing and teaching, to rediscovery of love, these poems seek our common ground in quiet, moments of lyric reflection. With a keen attention to the histories of words, places, and selves, the poems in Earthen environ us.

Shows that education constitutes the central metaphor of John Milton's political as well as his poetic writing. Demonstrating how Milton's theory of education emerged from his own practices as a reader and teacher, this book analyzes the relationship between Milton's own material habits as a reader and his theory of the power of books.