Essays & Correspondence
epub |eng | | Author:Helen Vendler

Ammons plays on the etymology: “succinct” poetry is “cinctured”: “discinct” poetry is unbelted, unbuttoned, the “bosh and flapdoodle” of the human lexicon. Ammons unveils—in a sad and tender recollection of ...
( Category: Poetry March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1986-05-08 | Author:Paul Theroux [Theroux, Paul]

There is a bad dream which everyone suffers. It takes place in a large overbright room, filled with people going, "Quack! Quack!" You know every person in the room, and ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 10,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2009-04-05 | Author:George Grossmith; Weedon Grossmith

CHAPTER XIV Begin the year with an unexpected promotion at the office. I make two good jokes. I get an enormous rise in my salary. Lupin speculates successfully and starts ...
( Category: Humor & Satire March 9,2018 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2000-02-03 | Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS LECTURE READ BEFORE THE SOCIETY IN AMORY HALL, ON SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 1844 In the suburb, in the town, On the railway, in the square, Came a ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-03 | Author:Emerson, Ralph Waldo

»Forms that men spy With the half-shut eye In the beams of the setting sun, am I.« The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 9,2018 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-26 | Author:Robert S. McElvaine

In those families where there was turmoil during the Depression, the children often suffered. Fathers (and mothers) might take out their frustrations on the children. As the effects of unemployment, ...
( Category: Americas March 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Marcus Garvey

The ‘Colored’ or Negro Press “Nearly all the newspapers of the race had entered into a conspiracy to taboo the term ‘Negro’ and popularize the term ‘colored’ as the proper ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Felice Newman

The Pole Test Natalie Y. Moore & Natalie Hopkinson I look into my daughter’s eyes And realize that I’ma learn through her. —Common, “Be” Comedian Chris Rock prowls the stage, ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling March 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Rachel Kramer Bussel

The survivor has nothing but her body to put between herself and the captor/rapist. My body passes between us while I escape elsewhere (sometimes) during the assaults themselves. My body ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 7,2018 )
epub |rus | | Author:Chuck Palahniuk [Palahniuk, Chuck]

POSTSCRIPT: The photographer for this piece, Amy Eckert, jumped through a lot of government hoops to make it happen for Nest magazine. She warned me that, since Nest was a ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-16 | Author:W. E. B. Du Bois [Bois, W. E. B. Du]

VIII Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece1 But the Brute said in his breast, “Till the mills I grind have ceased, The riches shall be dust of dust, dry ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-04 | Author:Samuel Johnson

I Is in English considered both as a vowel and consonant; though, since the vowel and consonant differ in their form as well as sound, they may be more properly ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses March 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 1907-01-01 | Author:William James [James, William]

In point of fact it actually seems to grow by our mental determinations, be these never so ‘true.’ Take the ‘great bear’ or ‘dipper’ constellation in the heavens. We call ...
( Category: Philosophy March 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-25 | Author:Javier Marías

( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 5,2018 )