Unbalanced Vision

How strange--the topic of my essays are mostly related to recent events. Last term when I was writing on Philip Sidney during late November, it was right around Sir Sidney's birthday. Now I am writing on Charles I and his political propaganda book, Eikon Basilike. If you check the calendar, January 30th was the day of his execution--first time ever in British history, a King was brought to death. In the year 2003, you can still retrace his steps to the scaffold... and imagine "such a groan as I have never heard before, and desire I may never hear again."