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Returning to Evening-Rest and Sleep

By Robin Bates | Published: December 26, 2023

Tolkien has several versions of the poem Bilbo writes about returning home.

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Returning to the Misty Past

By Robin Bates | Published: October 18, 2018

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

By Robin Bates | Published: December 24, 2016

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

By Robin Bates | Published: June 24, 2013

My father’s house, not Rimbaud’s drunken boat, seems to launch itself into realms of the imagination.d

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