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11 sty 2011 · “Wisdom through the awful grace of God” is an amazing line, one that not only subverts an idea, but also an emotion. Kennedy only spoke briefly, but by the end of his talk the crowd...
3 kwi 2016 · The poem, written around 458 B.C.E., is the first in a cycle of three plays by Aeschylus. The tragedy centers on King Agamemnon and his wife Clytemnestra, who was left behind while the king is off fighting in the Trojan War.
It collects two poems that are highly critical responses to violent political events that had recently taken place in the U.S.—the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and the shooting of Kent State University students by National Guard soldiers.
Edith Hamilton’s translation of these lines from Aeschylus (Agamemnon, 179-183) is most famous in a mistranslation that has been widely propagated. The mistranslation can be attributed to Robert F. Kennedy, who misquoted Edith Hamilton’s prose version from The Greek Way, misquoting “despair” for “despite” in a famous speech upon the ...
6 cze 2018 · This is the Robert Kennedy who began reading poetry after his brother’s 1963 assassination and often wove poetic messages into his campaign speeches.
5 gru 2014 · Robert Kennedy, Eric Garner and Aeschylus. “My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He wrote, … “in our sleep pain that cannot forget , falls drop by drop upon the heart, until in our own despair … comes wisdom through the awful grace of God .”.
On April 4, 1968, in a speech' in Indianapolis, Robert F. Kennedy informed his listeners of the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., and in the course of his remarks used two quotations which he had borrowed from Edith Hamilton.
