EDWARD L. SCHIEFFELIN: From The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers

Symposium of the Whole traces a discourse on poetry and culture that has profoundly influenced the art of our time, with precedents going back two centuries and

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In his Symposium, Plato crafted speeches in praise of love that has influenced writers and artists from antiquity to the present. But questions remain concernin