Among the joys of being a parent and grandparent is revisiting childhood books.
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The Joys of Revisiting Childhood Favs
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To Esmé, without the Squalor
I reflect upon a significant literary antecedent for my eldest granddaughter’s name and what it means.
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The Children’s Hour
Monday I am retooling a post that I wrote five years ago to apply to yesterday’s visit to my four grandchildren. As the three oldest, Esmé (7), Etta (5), and Eden (3), swarmed over me on their playroom floor, I recalled Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “The Children’s Hour.” It too features an elder man being swarmed […]
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Nature and “My Babe So Beautiful”
I saw my latest grandchild for the first time yesterday. Although it was beautiful spring day, Coleridge’s beautiful “Frost at Midnight” came to mind. That’s because the poet imagines “the great universal teacher” imparting a spirit of inquiry to his infant son.
A Kind of Light Spread Out from Her
John Steinbeck’s “East of Eden” contributed to the naming of my latest granddaughter.
My New Granddaughter, Glorious Eden
I am a grandfather again. My latest granddaughter, Eden Rhys Wilson-Bates, brings to mind “Paradise Lost” and Lucille Clifton’s Garden of Eden poems.
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A Sense of Wonder at the Zoo
Taking my son to the National Zoo recalled A. A. Milne’s “At the Zoo.” As with Christopher Robin, the elephants were the star attraction.
My Grandson, a “Best Philosopher”
Having grandchildren has changed my perspective on Wordsworth’s “Intimations of Immortality.”
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