e.e. cummings has a dialogue with Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” in his own poem about autumn. I include Frost and Oliver in the reflection as well.
Tag Archives: Percy Shelley
the passing of all shining things
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Read Lit, Then Fight for Freedom
While literature may seem irrelevant to our political battles, it provides (as Shelley points out) an invaluable human compass.
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Does Lightweight Lit Do Damage?
I look at how thinkers over the centuries have viewed so-called popular or lightweight literature.
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During Covid, Workers Must Unite
On this International Workers’ Day, frontline workers are bearing the brunt on Covid-19 and public sector workers may not be far behind. Time for Shelley’s “To the Working Men of England.”
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13 Books That (Kind of) Changed America
I review Parini’s “13 Books That Changed America” and find his view of change to be limiting. For one thing, he excludes most of American literature.
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Let My Words Turn into Sparks
In this Marge Piercy Rosh Hashanah poem, the poet asks how she has contributed to peace.
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