Tolkien has several versions of the poem Bilbo writes about returning home.
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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.
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Christmas During Life’s Storms
In “Christmas at Sea,” Robert Louis Stevenson’s speaker is both buoyed up and saddened by childhood Christmas memories.
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My Father’s House, Le Château Ivre
My father’s house, not Rimbaud’s drunken boat, seems to launch itself into realms of the imagination.d
