GUEST BLOG – Betty Duggan
This is the fourth year that my husband, Bill Duggan, and I have been coming to Classical Pursuits. We wouldn’t […]
This is the fourth year that my husband, Bill Duggan, and I have been coming to Classical Pursuits. We wouldn’t […]
As a classical pursuits newbie I signed up for everything I could before I started. Stratford was a great introduction.
Arrived on a beautiful sunny morning in Toronto for a stimulating discussion of Henri James’ Portrait of a Lady. Our
“Like a pair of binoculars with no right or wrong end, the camera makes exotic things near, intimate, and familiar
In scope, detail, and humanity, Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks is a classic of modem literature and continues to be a model
Upon first reading Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, the great 19th-century biologist Thomas Henry Huxley—later to be known
The ghazal is my favourite poetic form—even though it’s less familiar than the sonnet or the haiku. A sonnet gives
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust. I doubt there’s a better
After a Viennese music critic died, some of his friends made the rounds of local musicians to raise money for
While I cannot invite you to Newfoundland, I can invite you to do the next best thing — journey imaginatively