The “Viking Row” buoyed the Norwegian soccer team, bringing to mind a literary seafaring Scandinavian (i.e., Beowulf).
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Beowulf and “the Viking Row”
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Beowulf, Erling Haaland, Norwegian soccer team, World Cup Comments closed
Finding Deep Rest in a Still Room
A John Greeleaf Whittier poem making a strong case for communal worship.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged “Meeting", communal worship, John Greenleaf Whittier, Quakers Comments closed
My Early Literary Civics Lessons
In which I explore the works that contributed to my vision of being an American.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Oh Captain My Captain", “Nancy Hanks", American Twins of the Revolution, Clansman, Declaration of Independence, July 4th, Lucy Fitch Perkins, Rosemary Benét, Thomas Dixon, Walt Whitman Comments closed
Harry Kane as Henry V Redux
In which I compare England transcendent goal scorer Harry Kane to Shakespeare’s Henry V.
Reading Changes Us in Foundational Ways
In which I share an excerpt from Maryanne Wolf’s “Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World.”
Read Novels Like a Victorian
My response to an article lamenting that the presence of screens destroyed his love of novels.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Middlemarch, Our Mutual Friend, Tom Jones, Tristram Shandy Comments closed
Trump’s Punishment
From early in Trump’s first term, I was comparing him to Milton’s Satan.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Anthony Trollope, Beowulf, Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, Donald Trump, John Milton, Paradise Lost, resentment, ressentiment, Small House at Allingham Comments closed
Entering Retirement
In my memoir, I finally reach my retirement years.
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