Emerson’s “Dirge” helps me remember and honor my son Justin on this 25th anniversary of his death.
Tag Archives: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oliver: My Work Is Loving the World
in Mary Oliver’s “Messenger,” the poet provides insight into what it means to live forever.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Each and All", "Messenger", All the Pretty Horses, Auguries of Innocence, Cormac McCarthy, Easter, Francis Hodgson Burnett, Mary Oliver, Resurrection, Secret Garden, Tintern Abbey, William Blake, William Wordsworth Comments closed
Wendell Berry’s Sabbath Vision
In this fine talk Andrea Sanders explores Wendell Berry’s vision of Sabbath, with slide glances at Dillard, Thoreau, Dickinson, and others.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Sabbath Poems", "That's how the light gets in", "The World Is Too Much with Us", Andrea Sanders, Annie Dillard, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Leonard Cohen, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Walden, Wendell Berry, William Wordsworth Comments closed
What Makes a Nation Strong? Not Fascism
Emerson’s “A Nation’s Strength” is must reading in this time of trial.
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We’re All Embattled Farmers Now
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Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Concord Hymn", American Revolution, Battle of Lexington and Concord", George III, Heather Cox Richardson, James Mariott Comments closed
Soliloquies Changed Us Fundamentally
Hamlet’s soliloquies changed the way we see ourselves and others and led the way to the novel.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Angus Fletcher, Charlotte Bronte, Hamlet, Harold Bloom, Harper Lee, Huckleberry Finn, humanism, Jane Eyre, Le Cid, Pierre Corneille, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, soliloquies, Sorrows of Young Werther, To Kill a Mockingbird, transcendentalism, Wonderworks Comments closed
Out of Pain We Feed This Feverish Plot
Oliver captures Christian fish imagery in “The Fish.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Each and All", "Fish", Fishers of People, Mary Oliver Comments closed
Longfellow, 19th-Century Rock Star
More passages from Pearl’s “The Dante Club,” about the 19th Century’s love of poetry.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Children's Hour", "Psalm of Life", Children, Dante Club, Evangeline, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Matthew Pearl Comments closed
Here I Bloom for a Short Hour Unseen
In “Sic Vita” Thoreau uses the image of plucked flowers to wrestle with the meaning of life and death.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Each and All", "They Are All Gone into the World of Light", "Sic Vita", existential wrestling, George Herbert, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Vaughan Comments closed
