More passages from Pearl’s “The Dante Club,” about the 19th Century’s love of poetry.
Sign up for my weekly newsletter
Tag Archives: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Longfellow, 19th-Century Rock Star
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
A Nation’s Strength: Truth and Honor
William Ralph Emerson speaks to America’s core ideals in “A Nation’s Strength.” Now we just have to honor them.
Can We Love the Morning Again?
In this poem Levertov talks about the difficulties of loving the morning again after a night of horrors.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Love of Morning", Denise Levertov, Faith, hope, love Comments closed
Use Poetry to Teach American Civics
Poetry can be used to teach core American values, which we need at the moment more than ever.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "I Too Sing America", "Nation's Strength", "New Colossus", Capitol invasion, Emma Lazarus, Langston Hughes, Patriotism Comments closed
The Frolic Architecture of the Snow
Ralph Waldo Emerson sees a snow-storm as a master architect and “fierce artificer.”
The Zen of an Old Growth Forest
Biologist David Haskell approaches forests in a way that is both scientific and poetic.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Each and All", "Flower in the Crannied Wall", Alfred Lord Tennyson, David Haskell, forest, Henry David Thoreau, Nature, Tibetan Buddhism Comments closed