Weโve encountered Walt Whitmanโs poetry on this blog before: in a longish post where I offered some advice on how to interpret poems, I presented his poem To a Stranger. And now I would like to share with you another poem of his, on a similar theme of the need for love and companionship. Walt …
English words of the year 2022
In 2021 some of the major dictionary publishers chose words related to the pandemic, unsurprisingly, while others reflected on the broader social issues or tech developments. (If you donโt recall what those words were, click here to refresh your memory). With New Yearโs just around the corner, letโs see which words marked the year 2022, …
“The Forest Path” by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) was a Canadian author nowadays best known for her novel Anne of Green Gables. Even those who havenโt read the book about the charming red-haired orphan girl must have watched the very successful 1985 TV series by the same title or the more recent Netflix adaptation Anne with an E. Lucy …
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“Mist” by Nikolaus Lenau
Nikolaus Lenau was the nom de plume of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau, a poet who is now considered one the most important voices of Late-Romantic literature in German. A portrait of Lenau by Matevลพ Langus Born in Csatรกd in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Lenauheim in the Banat region of western Romania) in 1802, …
