21 March 2015

The First Dandelion

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Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close emerging,  As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been,  Forth from...
23 November 2014

Thinking in Literature

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What makes the question of "thinking in literature" arise? No doubt the traditional answer still carries weight: Plato gave the...
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Topics already covered and to be covered next term

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1) Jane Austen 1775 – 1817 2) William Blake  1757 – 1827 3) Ralph Waldo Emerson  1803 – 1882 4) Charles  Dickens 1812 – 1870  ...
09 April 2014

Dorothy Parker 1893 - 1967

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Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curios...
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02 April 2014

Ogden Nash

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To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up."...

Always Marry an April Girl by Ogden Nash 1902- 1971

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Praise the spells and bless the charms, I found April in my arms. April golden, April cloudy, Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy; April s...

That Reminds Me By Ogden Nash 1902- 1971

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Just imagine yourself seated on a shadowy terrace, And beside you is a girl who stirs you more strangely than an       heiress, It is a...

I didn't go to church today by Ogden Nash 1902 - 1971

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I didn't go to church today, I trust the Lord to understand. The surf was swirling blue and white, The children swirling on the sand. H...
23 March 2014

On the Sale of My Farm by Robert Frost 1874 – 1963

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Well-away and be it so, To the stranger let them go. Even cheerfully I yield Pasture, orchard, mowing-field, Yea and wish...

Paul Theroux 1941

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Novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux was born in Medford, Massachusetts (1941). He went to the University of Massachusetts, which he ...