Journal/1995

In graduate school during the fall and living in Tampa. Obviously I took a class on the epic. Grandma died in September.

January

• 5: Letter from Dad
• 20: Formal Verse Satire
• 22: The Satirist’s Character and Role

April

• 17: Apropos Shakespeare’s Sonnets 33, 34, and 35

July

• 2: The Fall of a Sparrow: A Note on A Hero of Our Time and Hamlet

August

• 14: To Gertrude Rahe
• 27: To Gertrude Rahe

September

• 9: Gilgamesh and Enkidu
• 19: Friendship and Two Epics
• 25: RIP, Grandma

October

• 3: Aeneas and Dido
• 15: Dante the Pilgrim
• 17: Dante and the Ladder
• 21: Dante’s Cosmology and Idea
• 23: Science Fiction: Epic Continuity

November

• 15: What is an Epic?
• 23: Our Hero
• 29: Teaching Homer