Blindness & Insight

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If the body can serve as an image of the perfected human soul, it can also reflect the ways in which our human hopes are defeated. In Adamā€™s Curse and Among School Children W.B. Yeats evokes certain pains hidden within the body. 

8 minutes

Speaker:
Declan Kiberd