Sunday, June 4, 2017
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
"Unfolded Out of the Folds" by Walt Whitman
"A man is a great thing upon the earth, and through eternity -- but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman." So reads a line in the poem "Unfolded Out of the Folds" by Walt Whitman, who was born on this day in 1819 in West Hills, Long Island, New York. To read that poem in its entirety, click here.
Walt Whitman, 1819-1892
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Two Poems for Memorial Day (Part 2)
(Yesterday's poem: "Memorial Day" by Joyce Kilmer)
According to Roman poet and satirist Horace (65-8 B.C.), "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori (It is sweet and seemly to die for one's country)." Is it? Today read the poem "Dulce et Decorum est" by British poet Wilfred Owen.
According to Roman poet and satirist Horace (65-8 B.C.), "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori (It is sweet and seemly to die for one's country)." Is it? Today read the poem "Dulce et Decorum est" by British poet Wilfred Owen.
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
Monday, May 29, 2017
Two Poems for Memorial Day (Part 1)
According to Roman poet and satirist Horace (65-8 B.C.), "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori (It is sweet and seemly to die for one's country)." Is it? Today read the poem "Memorial Day" by American poet Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918).
(Tomorrow: a poem by Wilfred Owen)
(Tomorrow: a poem by Wilfred Owen)
Sgt. Joyce Kilmer, as a member
of the Fighting 69th Infantry Regiment,
United States Army, c. 1918
Friday, May 26, 2017
"The Camel's Back" (Chapter V of V) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Yesterday: Chapter IV of "The Camel's Back")
"The scene that followed will go down forever in the annals of the Tallyho Club." So begins Chapter V, the conclusion, of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Camel's Back" (1920). To continue reading that early short story of his and to continue reading Chapter V, the conclusion, of that story, click here.
"The scene that followed will go down forever in the annals of the Tallyho Club." So begins Chapter V, the conclusion, of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Camel's Back" (1920). To continue reading that early short story of his and to continue reading Chapter V, the conclusion, of that story, click here.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
American writer
Thursday, May 25, 2017
"The Camel's Back" (Chapter IV of V) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Yesterday: Chapter III of "The Camel's Back")
"This paradise of frail foundation was broken into by the sounds of a general ingress to the ballroom; the cotillion was beginning." So begins Chapter IV of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Camel's Back" (1920). To continue reading that early short story of his and to continue reading Chapter IV of that story, click here.
(Tomorrow: Chapter V of "The Camel's Back")
"This paradise of frail foundation was broken into by the sounds of a general ingress to the ballroom; the cotillion was beginning." So begins Chapter IV of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Camel's Back" (1920). To continue reading that early short story of his and to continue reading Chapter IV of that story, click here.
(Tomorrow: Chapter V of "The Camel's Back")
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
American writer
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