culture. education. literary studies.
Alice Cary was a 19th century American poet. Born in 1820, she grew up in rural Ohio, on a family farm run by her father William. Although living far from any schools and lacking formal education, Alice was an avid reader with a thirst for knowledge. She and her sister Phoebe started writing poetry in …
I have recently been invited by a fellow blogger, John Stamos, to write a guest post for his wonderful website called The Renaissance Garden Guy. In it, I shared about my love of walking and birding, and how those two activities helped to make me a more discerning reader. In the same post I have …
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Arin Murphy-Hiscock is a Canadian author who has written a number of books on contemporary witchcraft. What initially drew me to this title in particular, I am not ashamed to admit, was its beautiful cover โ I am a sucker for nice book designs, and this one immediately got my attention. But, of course, there …
In this post I would like to invite you to read and ponder on a poem by one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, Robert Frost. It is titled โOctoberโ, first published in England in 1913, in a largely autobiographical collection of poems called A Boyโs Will. O hushed October morning mild,Thy leaves …
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