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Annette Wynne was an early 20th century American writer of childrenโs poems. Her debut collection โFor Days and Days: A Year-Round Treasury of Child Verseโ came out in 1919, followed by โTreasure Thingsโ in 1922.ย The short poem featured in this post is called โTo an Old Treeโ. Itโs a lovely ode to the stoic …
Charles Turner Dazey was an American writer and playwright born in Lima, Illinois, in 1855. He wrote a number of successful plays, also leaving a mark in the early film history as a writer of numerous silent films. He died in Quincy in 1938; sadly, his works quickly became forgotten. Charles T. Dazey I chose …
Although I've been intrigued for a long time, I kept avoiding Capote, confident that I'd dislike his writing as much as I dislike what I'd known were his usual themes: socialites, jet set shenanigans, and the sort of debauchery appealing to bored-out-of-their-minds nouveaux riches. And Answered Prayers is precisely one such book.
Amos Russel Wells (1862โ1933) was an American scholar and Christian activist. He authored numerous works, including poetry, essays, young adult fiction and devotional writings. In this post weโll read his poem โSome Questions for Saint Valentineโs Day.โ You can tell that Wells was a classicist: addressing Cupid rather than the venerable Christian saint and martyr, …
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