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William Cullen Bryant was a 19th century American romanticist poet, abolitionist and civil right advocate. Originally a lawyer, he started publishing poems in the early 1820s. Later in the decade he became the editor of the New York Review and the New York Evening Post, solidifying his position as a prominent man of letters and …
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Dear friends and followers of the Grammaticus blog, Itโs time for the release of another free ebook! Just in time for Christmas, Iโm happy to present a holiday story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman โThe Silver Henโ. Born in Randolph, Massachusetts, in 1852, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman is best known as the author of numerous …
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In this post Iโll share with you some of my favourite books with a dreamy wintertime setting. For the past few years we havenโt had much snow in my neck of the woods, but thereโs plenty of it in these titles!
There's about a dozen poets that I've always felt a special affinity to. Some well-known names are among them, such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Walt Whitman and Robert Frost, but there are also those whose works seem to have fallen out of favour with the reading public and who are no longer household names. One …
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