Tag Archives: Marriage

The Tiny Rituals that Make a Marriage

By Robin Bates | Published: July 18, 2014

Alice McDermott in “Someone” captures the small rituals and routines that make up a marriage.

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Austen on Bad Reasons for Getting Married

By Robin Bates | Published: July 11, 2014

In “Pride and Prejudice” Jane Austen systematically explores bad reasons for getting married.

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Ask Jane: Advice for Lovers

By Robin Bates | Published: June 27, 2014

“Pride and Prejudice” functions as a perceptive guide in how to develop a soul relationship.

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The Bard as Couples Counselor

By Robin Bates | Published: January 10, 2014

Shakespeare charts the way to new kinds of relationships in his cross-dressing comedies.

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Lit’s 10 Most Painful Marriage Proposals

By Robin Bates | Published: November 21, 2013

Literature 10 most painful marriage proposals.

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Sex and the Single Pretty Woman

By Robin Bates | Published: August 17, 2012

“Pretty Woman” captures the ideas and the spirit of Helen Gurley Brown, who died Monday.

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Jane Austen & My Son’s Secret Wedding

By Robin Bates | Published: November 17, 2011

A secret marriage entered into by my son Toby could have been taken straight out of Jane Austen’s “Emma.”

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The Black Honey of Summer

By Robin Bates | Published: August 2, 2011

My son’s marriage proposal to his Trinidadian girlfriend has become bound up in my mind with a Mary Oliver poem about blackberries.

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Poetry to Read at a Hippy Wedding

By Robin Bates | Published: June 8, 2011

Today is my wedding anniversary so you get to hear how I wove poetry into the ceremony. W. B. Yeats, Archibald MacLeish, D.H. Lawrence, and the Song of Solomon all made appearances. Get ready for time travel back to a very different era.

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