A comic exercise imagining how a teenage John Roberts would interpret various classics.
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Tag Archives: Christmas Carol
My Son, Second Generation Lit Blogger
In which I praise my son’s second generation literary blogging.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged blogging, Charles Dickens, Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market, John Milton, Lycidas, Tobias Wilson-Bates Comments closed
The Power of Dickens’s Christmas Carol
My son Tobias Wilson-Bates on the power of Dickens’s “Christmas Carol” and how Dickens reinvented Christmas.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "New Year's Gift", “Ceremonies for Christmas", “True Christmas", Charles Dickens, Christmas, Henry Vaughan Comments closed
The Gift That Only You Can Give
Like many Epiphany poems, Jan Richardson’s “For Those Who Have Far to Travel” focuses on the journey.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "For Those Who Have Far to Travel", "Journey of the Magi", Christina Rossetti, Jan Richardson, T. S. Eliot Comments closed
Jo, Nell, Tiny Tim Needed Vaccines
Victorian lit is filled with scenes of children dying of diseases we now have cures for. Does Trumpism want to go back to those days?
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Birds' Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, disease, Jane Eyre, Jay Battacharya, Kate Wiggins, Mehmet Oz, Old Curiosity Shop, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Comments closed
Dickens’s Evolving View of Christmas
Dickens didn’t so much invent Christmas–or even reinvent it–as supercharge it. “A Christmas Carol” was key in the endeavor.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Charles Dickens, Christmas, Haunted Man, It's a Wonderful Life, Joseph Addison, Pickwick Papers, Sketches by Boz Comments closed
Remember the Real Meaning of Christmas
Jim McPherson’s “Christmas Humbug” reminds us what the Advent season should really be about.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "December Humbug", Advent, Charles Dickens, Christmas, Jim McPherson Comments closed