{"id":2656,"date":"2016-06-28T14:30:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T18:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2016-06-28T14:30:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T18:30:17","slug":"envisions-unified-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2016\/06\/28\/envisions-unified-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Review:  Envisions a Unified World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/the_globe200\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2592\" src=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/The_Globe200-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The_Globe200\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Envisions a Unified World\u00a0\u2014Bob Dixon-Kolar, Assistant Professor of English, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois<\/strong><br \/>\nApril 28, 2016<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To those coming to <em>The Parliament of Poets<\/em> without having read other things by Glaysher (such as his essays or other poems), let me point out that the author identifies at a deep soul-level with the world-renowned poets who inhabit his contemporary epic. His book is an intellectual achievement, yes. But it is much more than that\u2014it is the artistic culmination of a long spiritual journey.<\/p>\n<p>Glaysher&#8217;s alter-ego in the epic (Persona) encounters Ralph Waldo Emerson and implores him,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;Tell me how to go on from here, how to raise<br \/>\na universal song For All Mankind,<br \/>\nas universal as the morning wind.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This, as I understand it, is Glaysher&#8217;s heart-felt desire. <strong>If you choose to read <em>The Parliament of Poets<\/em>\u2014and I hope that you will!\u2014know that you are reading a devotional work of a poet-seer, one who yearns for and envisions a unified world in which spiritual verities draw all people together<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\">Frederick Glaysher<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you choose to read The Parliament of Poets\u2014and I hope that you will!\u2014know that you are reading a devotional work of a poet-seer, one who yearns for and envisions a unified world in which spiritual verities draw all people together.&#8221;  <a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2016\/06\/28\/envisions-unified-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[814,804,29,186,184,232,813,811,46,812],"class_list":["post-2656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beyondpostmod","tag-bob-dixon-kolar","tag-epic","tag-epic-poetry","tag-frederick-glaysher","tag-parliament-of-poets","tag-poetry","tag-ralph-waldo-emerson","tag-spirituality","tag-universality","tag-verities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}