Valentine for Ernest Mann You can’t order a poem like you order a taco. Walk up to the counter, say,…
The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. Before the advent of motorways in the UK (first section of…
Some paintings are made to pair with a poem. Read Edward Thomas's As the Team's Head Brass and then take another look…
All agreed that 1917 had been a sad offender. All observed that 1918 did not look promising at its birth.…
Literary reputations come and go, rise and fall like food fads and fashion. Marjorie Pickthall - once so highly regarded that…
Hard to think of a better example of misplaced romantic nostalgia than yearning for the days before the era of…
I've been reading the quite wonderful Tirzah Garwood memoir Long Live Great Barfield - a book that deserves several posts…
"You may wonder why we keep that window wide open on an October afternoon," said the niece, indicating a large…
We had just evacuated all the students to the playground, lined them up and done a head count. It wasn't…
Langston Hughes wrote this in 1935. It had meaning and relevance then. It still has. Read it. Let America Be…