Poetry has always been present in times of war but with mixed success at improving conditions.
Tag Archives: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Literature in Time of War
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged burning books, Ernest Hemingway, Hitler, Homer, Iliad, King John, Louis Untemeyer, Modern American and British Poetry, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Osip Mandelstam, Robert Graves, Stalin, Uncle Tom's Cabin, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Tim Scott’s Self-Debasement
Sen. Tim Scott’s self-abasement before Donald Trump brings to mind various “Uncle Tom” poems written by Black authors.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "All of Us Are All of Us", "robert", "Uncle Tom", Donald Trump, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Lindsey Graham, Lucille Clifton, racism, Tim Scott, Uncle Tom's Cabin Comments closed
The Arbery Killers, Today’s Slave Catchers
The men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery are like the slave catchers in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Ahmaud Arbery, Fugitive Slave Law, Kyle Rittenhouse, racism, Uncle Tom's Cabin Comments closed
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Changed History
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” changed history. But is it a great work of literature?
The Lit That Inspired Van Gogh
Writers like Stowe, Dickens, Hugo and Maupassant played a pivotal role in the evolution of Van Gogh as an artist.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Bel Ami, Charles Dickens, Christmas Tales, Guy de Maupassant, Miserables, painting, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Victor Hugo, Vincent Van Gogh Comments closed
Returning to the Misty Past
John Gatta’s “Spirits of Place” is helping me understand why I have chosen to retire in my home town. Wordsworth, Stowe, Homer, and Frost help out as well.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Death of the Hired Man", "Pulley", George Herbert, home, Homer, John Gatta, Odyssey, retirement, Robert Frost, Sewanee, Tintern Abbey, Uncle Tom's Cabin, William Wordsworth Comments closed
Can Art Thwart Trump? A Debate
In which I argue with a writer who claims that art and artists have an inflated sense of their power and that they are irrelevant in the battle against Donald Trump.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Donald Trump, Grapes of Wrath, Invisible Man, John Steinbeck, propaganda, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, social realism, socialist realism, Uncle Tom's Cabin, W. H. Auden Comments closed
Can Lit Also Be a Force for Evil? A Debate
The classics are capable to doing great good but can they also do harm? Even as they powerfully open up the mind to new possibilities, can they also close it down? A debate.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Anabelle Lee", Aristotle, Bridge to Terabithia, Charles Dickens, Earth Sea Trilogy, Edgar Allan Poe, George Eliot, Jane Austen, Katherine Paterson, Middlemarch, Old Curiosity Shop, Percy Shelley, Plato, Pride and Prejudice, Sir Philip Sidney, Twelfth Night, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Ursula Leguin, William Shakespeare Comments closed
