Christmas with Washington Irving.
Today the Christmas material in Washington Irving’s The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819-20) encompasses a jovial and expansive midsection …
Tag Archives: American Literature
What does Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina mean?
[The following contains spoilers.] I never read graphic novels – there is enough on my plate already! – but I …
Tychy@ the Fringe: The Death of Edgar Allan Poe.
It is a typical afternoon at the Edinburgh Fringe. I go to the Summerhall to check out the new play …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (49).
As she knelt down, the border of her garment was dipped into the pool; she laid her forehead on the …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (48).
“Come, my bride!” said those pale lips, “the hearse is ready. The sexton stands waiting for us at the door …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (47).
Had a wanderer, bewildered in the melancholy forest, heard their mirth, and stolen a half-affrighted glance, he might have fancied …
Tychy@ the Fringe: The Great Gatsby.
The voice of Nick Carraway, the narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, has always played in …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (46).
Up with your nimble spirits, ye morrice-dancers, green-men, and glee-maidens, bears and wolves, and horned gentlemen! Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The May-Pole …
Is Atticus Still Atticus? (A Review of Go Set A Watchman.)
Let us start by considering the dubiousness of all this. Go Set A Watchman is a radical first draft of …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (45).
Up with your nimble spirits, ye morrice-dancers, green-men, and glee-maidens, bears and wolves, and horned gentlemen! Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The May-Pole …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (44).
Had a wanderer, bewildered in the melancholy forest, heard their mirth, and stolen a half-affrighted glance, he might have fancied …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (43).
The boy sometimes hinted his opinions upon the subject, and Reuben listened attentively, and once or twice altered the direction …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (42).
“Reuben, my boy,” said he, “this rock, beneath which we sit, will serve for an old hunter’s grave-stone. There is …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (41).
… and how the little one of all, whose sports had hitherto broken the decorum of the scene, understood the …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (40).
Such were the colonists of Merry Mount, as they stood in the broad smile of sunset round their venerated Maypole. …
