There isn't a free translation of Aquinas's commentary on the Ethics that I really like, so here are a few options. (If anyone knows where to find a better free source, let me know!)

https://isidore.co/aquinas/english/Ethics8.htm#1

https://aquinas.cc/la/la/~Eth.Bk8 (Latin text only)

https://thegreatthinkers.org/aquinas/major-works/commentary-on-aristotles-ethics/

Here is a translation of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics:

https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/aristotle/Ethics.pdf

Lecture by Fr. Hofer: https://soundcloud.com/thomisticinstitute/lust-and-spiritual-contemplation-according-to-st-thomas-aquinas-fr-andrew-hofer-op#t=7:02

Where you can find the novel Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy by Rumer Godden: Here. (This is the Thriftbooks cheap version.)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009SS96Y6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 (If you want a new or Kindle copy.)

Aquinas on folly as the daughter of lust: https://aquinas.cc/la/en/~ST.II-II.Q46.A3.T

Regardless, here is the translation of "Live not by Lies" that I used: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03064220408537357

The trailer: https://youtu.be/LFVhB54UqvQ

The New Yorker Review: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/all-the-wrong-reasons-to-remake-rebecca

Another pretty negative review: https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/24/21531089/netflix-rebecca-review-hitchcock-disney-remake

Summary of the novel/movie: https://theconversation.com/guide-to-the-classics-rebecca-by-daphne-du-maurier-gender-gothic-haunting-and-gaslighting-146573

Where you can buy the novel for not much money: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/three-novels--five-short-stories_daphne-du-maurier/265375/item/2296267/?mkwid=PH40dz3R%7cdc&pcrid=70112865792&product=2296267&plc=&pgrid=21323651472&ptaid=pla-293630284770&utm_source=google_shopping&utm_content=PH40dz3R%7cdc%7cpcrid%7c70112865792%7cpkw%7c%7cpmt%7c%7cproduct%7c2296267%7cslid%7c%7cpgrid%7c21323651472%7cptaid%7cpla-293630284770%7c&gclid=Cj0KCQjwreT8BRDTARIsAJLI0KLNSLKv5kcDbeZLvHFhY9eMfHdVkNQJSWel2uixEI0T4gjETHMTE7caAty4EALw_wcB#idiq=2296267&edition=2208562

So much of her work is deeply introspective--delving into her own past and her need to be alone with it as well as her yearning for community and friendship. Through it all, of course, she remained a devout Catholic, and this not only shapes her understanding of the demons that haunt the dark recesses of her mind, but also formulates her response to them.

Something about her work is especially resonant with me now--I don't think I would have enjoyed reading her before the pandemic!--when my own poems have taken a similar turn.

In any case, here are the sources I mentioned today, as well as some general stuff about her life.

Today's poem, "Chinese Art"

A selection of Jennings poems: https://allpoetry.com/Elizabeth-Jennings

"The Life and Mystery of Poet Elizabeth Jennings" is a great introductory article by Analeah Rosen published on the Washington University in St. Louis Library website. https://library.wustl.edu/the-life-and-mystery-of-poet-elizabeth-jennings/

A short bio of Jennings from the Poet Archive, with recordings of Jennings reading two of her own poems. It's always wonderful to hear an artist read their own work: https://poetryarchive.org/poet/elizabeth-jennings/

An article from The Catholic World Report on Jennings and religion: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2019/03/24/elizabeth-jennings-and-the-poetry-of-faith/

If you are really interested in seeing her manuscripts, you can contact the archive that houses her collection of papers here: http://archon.wulib.wustl.edu/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=911&q=elizabeth+jennings

The book Achieving Peace of Heart is available on the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/stream/achievingpeaceof0000iral?ref=ol

You can only borrow it for an hour, and if anyone else is using it, it won't be available, but it doesn't seem that popular.... for now anyway. (You might be battling with me directly for access to it!)

Here is Q13 of the Summa I-II, which is where Aquinas talks about choice: https://aquinas.cc/la/en/~ST.I-II.Q13

Here is a description of the masterclass I attended, for context: https://www.amherst.edu/news/calendar/node/779620

Now here is the book Infinity and the Mind by Rudy Rucker that Jericho Brown's poetry exercises made me think of: http://www.rudyrucker.com/infinityandthemind/

Edward Feser's commentary on the book, offering a Scholastic interpretation of mindscape: https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/search?q=mindscape

And, finally, the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy's summary article on Medieval Theories of Aesthetics: https://iep.utm.edu/m-aesthe/

(The internet encyclopedia may leave some things to be desired, but it's a good summary to point you to other areas of investigation.)

Today's meditation turned out a good deal of a critique of aestheticism in its historic sense than I anticipated, but I hope you get the main idea. In any case, I hope the sources below can get you thinking on aestheticism, which will hopefully help us to reflect on the performance of autumn that confronts us every year, not only outside in nature, but in our own behaviors.

This is the V&A article I mentioned, an amazing introduction into the aesthetic movement.

https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/an-introduction-to-the-aesthetic-movement

Bonus V&A material on their aestheticism page: https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/aestheticism

Here is a link to a PDF of the Studies in the History of the Renaissance by Walter Pater that I used: http://www.ajdrake.com/etexts/texts/Pater/Works/ren_1873.pdf

Although... you might also want a more general source about Him and His Thing from the British Libarary: https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/walter-pater-studies-in-the-history-of-the-renaissance

For the more official sources, even though I didn't mention those specifically, I used some of the amazing jstor articles. I can't share all of them, as you need an account for most, but here are some of the open access links.

A chapter from Carsten Strathausen's amazing book The Look of Things: Poetry and Vision Around 1900: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807863237_strathausen.8

The New Aestheticism, a great book compiled by John J. Joughin and Simon Malpas, most of which is open access: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt155j77d

An article titled "Whistler's Pastels" by A. E. Gallatin: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20560231

An article titled "A Sentence by Walter Pater" from The Journal of English and Germanic Philology: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27701015 (This one is absolutely wild! It's from 1920, so aestheticism was still very busy influencing Art Deco, among other things.)

Here is the poetry site, American Poets: https://www.americanpoems.com/poets/emilydickinson/essential-oils-are-wrung/

The Emily Dickinson Museum, which is closed at the minute, but still has archives and stuff available online: https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/

Here is a decently-well-stocked archive, in case you want to See The Actual Writings of ED: https://www.edickinson.org/

As an extra bonus, the Wandering Botanist blog: http://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2016/12/plant-story-fragrant-rosemary.html