Tag Archives: Thanksgiving

We Come to Pay Our Thanks to Thee

By Robin Bates | Published: November 25, 2015

A Paul Laurence Dunbar poem giving thanks on this holiday devoted to gratitude.

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America’s Obsession with Pie

By Robin Bates | Published: November 27, 2014

Hilaire Belloc’s hilarious complaint about the world’s eating tastes would not treat Thanksgiving well.

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When Father Carves the Turkey

By Robin Bates | Published: November 28, 2013

Carving the Thanksgiving fowl can be an adventure.

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All Which We Behold Is Full of Blessings

By Robin Bates | Published: November 22, 2012

Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” provides us with passage that functions as a Thanksgiving poem.

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The Most Delicious Feast Ever Served

By Robin Bates | Published: November 24, 2011

For a description of a luscious Thanksgiving feast, turn to the luncheon that Eve prepares for Archangel Raphael in Book V of “Paradise Lost.”

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Expressing Gratitude for Nature’s Feast

By Robin Bates | Published: November 25, 2010

  Thanksgiving may be my favorite holiday because it involves holding a feast in the face of on-coming winter.  I read this as a sign that we believe the harvest bounty can carry us through the hard times. To accentuate the symbolism, I like my Thanksgivings to be cold and even a bit wet. Sir Gawain […]

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