Ruth Krauss’s children’s literature, often illustrated by Sendak, recognized and empowered me as a child.
Tag Archives: Imagination
My Childhood Love for Krauss/Sendak
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Gods Speaks through the Imagination
Jesus’s parables are exercises in imagining the kingdom of heaven come to earth.
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Aslan as Eco Warrior
Lewis’s Aslan is a bold creative stroke that opens up environmental possibilities for Christianity.
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Poetry: Sure Solacer of Human Cares
For those trapped in gloom, Emily Bronte reminds us that the Imagination is there to provide us with solace.
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Lewis Carroll’s Revolt against “Reality”
“Alice in Wonderland” was Carroll’s protest against Victorian society.
How to Imagine Peace
For Levertov, peace is made in the act of imagining it.
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Bored Students, Don’t Forget Lyre Bird
Jacques Prévert’s lyre bird comes to the rescue of bored students everywhere.
Quixote’s Battle for Imagination
In a short poem about about Sancho Panza and one of the windmills, Scott Bates describes Don Quixote’s sidekick as common sense reality robbing life of imagination.
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