A Meandering Muse

"A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God, and the consequence is an inevitable doom."
T.S. Eliot

The Nine Muses

Calliope (the "beautiful of speech", chief of the muses and muse of epic or heroic poetry)
Clio (the "glorious one", muse of history)
Erato (the "amorous one", muse of love or erotic poetry, lyrics, and marriage songs)
Euterpe (the "well-pleasing", muse of music and lyric poetry)
Melpomene (the "chanting one", muse of tragedy)
Polyhymnia or Polymnia (the "[singer] of many hymns", muse of sacred song, oratory, lyric, singing and rhetoric)
Terpsichore (the "[one who] delights in dance", muse of choral song and dance)
Thalia (the "blossoming one", muse of comedy and bucolic poetry)
Urania (the "celestial one", muse of astronomy)

Sunday, February 10, 2008