Wendell Berry has a poem addressing a fantasy many of us have had: jettisoning all our mail (and now, e-mail).
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Moll Flanders, Quintessential Capitalist
Moll Flanders is the ultimate capitalist, putting a price on everything. And my class finds itself cheering for her.
Lit’s 10 Strongest Female Characters
Who are literature’s ten strongest female characters? Here’s my list.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged As You Like It, Charlotte Bronte, Daneil Defoe, Doll's House, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henrik Ibsen, Henry James, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Mansfield Park, Moll Flanders, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Portrait of a Lady, Scarlet Letter, Wife of Bath, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Ballad of a Nun, a Bordello, and Mary
Scott Bates’ “Ballad of Thoughtful Love” retells a medieval fable about a nun-turned-whore who is saved by the Virgin Mary.
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The Agony of a Federer Fan
Federer’s early tournament losses bring about an agony not unlike that of poet Richard Shelton mourning the death of his beloved Sonora Desert.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Requiem for Sonora", age and aging, Richard Shelton, Roger Federer, tennis Comments closed
Speak Now for Peace
Obama, take note: Vachel Lindsay in 1915 counseled against going to war even after the sinking of the Lusitania.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Two Poems written on the Singing of the Lusitania", American intervention, chemical weapons, Jane Addams, Leo Tolstoy, Syria, Vachel Lindsay, war Comments closed
Don’t Know Much about History
Nixon Waterman’s 1902 comic poem about students’ ignorance of history is probably still true today.
