Candide posits three evils to which humans are prone: boredom, vice, and poverty. In taking up Pope’s optimism, suggests Candide, one gives into passivity and moral lethargy: it avoids local problems created by random natural occurrences and human apathy.
Archive | February, 2006
Poetry Find
A retired colleague, Nelson Miller, has started a blog called The Jackdaw’s Nest. He introduces it: I’ve started a blog which deals entirely with poets who aren’t well known in order to sort of introduce them to interested folk. All but one of the 12 entries so far are non-English speaking poets. Thanks to Debra [...]
