For Halloween, here’s one of the scariest poems that I know. In it, Robert Graves recalls a childhood nightmare after he was wounded in World War I.
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Literature in Time of War
Poetry has always been present in times of war but with mixed success at improving conditions.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged burning books, Ernest Hemingway, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hitler, Homer, Iliad, King John, Louis Untemeyer, Modern American and British Poetry, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Osip Mandelstam, Stalin, Uncle Tom's Cabin, William Shakespeare Comments closed
What Really Happened with Goliath
In Robert Graves’s version of the David-Goliath story, confident righteousness can get you killed.
Through WWII, My Father Carried Poetry
Literature played a major role in my father’s World War II experiences.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Pinch of Salt", Bell for Adano, Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls, John Hersey, Scott Bates Comments closed
