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Nov 4, 2019 20 min

Hamlet and Memento Mori

from The Permanent Things Hosted by Benjamin Myers

In this episode I take a solo flight to talk about death and its inevitability. Starting from the Princess Bride and Hamlet, we take a brief tour of the memento mori topos in Western literature from Homer and the Bible to Gerard Manley Hopkins and Robert Frost. Works Mentioned in the Episode: Hamlet by William Shakespeare The Book of Common Prayer The Iliad by Homer The Odyssey by Homer The Aeneid by Virgil Confessions by Augustine "The Wanderer" Beowulf The Divine Comedy by Dante The Dance of Death by Hans Holberlin the Younger Everyman The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Devotions Upon Divergent Occasions by John Donne Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost "Spring and Fall" by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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