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Dear friends and followers of the Grammaticus blog, It is my pleasure to present the third title in the series of Grammaticus Free Library ebooks. After โThe Snowโ by Hugh Walpole and โA Morning Walkโ by Kate Chopin, you can now download Sarah Orne Jewettโs short story โA White Heronโ, first published in 1886. Typical …
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In this post weโll read a wonderful short poem by Walt Whitman. Titled after its first line โA Noiseless Patient Spiderโ, itโs a two-stanza, free verse poem, in which Whitman likens his own soul to the tiny creature. Just as the patient little spider cautiously weaves his web, so does the poetโs soul make connections …
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William Carlos Williams (1883โ1963) was one of the most important American poets of the 20th century: a modernist of the imagist kind, he was known for using simple and colloquial language to express his ideasโa feature many critics now consider typical of modern American poetry. This can be contrasted with the modernists such as T. …
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Whitmanโs poem featured in this post is a very short one, originally published in the Herald newspaper on 12th March 1888. It just so happened that immediately after its publication, a major blizzard hit the state of New York, which made the poetโs timing rather unfortunate, and the subject of many jokes. It reminded me …
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