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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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Neurodiversity is a relatively new term, used to refer to diversity in cognitive functioning. As with other aspects of human experience, it was long assumed that there is such a thing as โnormalโ within a given culture; everything outside the norm was (in many places still is), met with stigmatisation and intolerance. Neurodivergent people have …
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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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