How to Read Poetry Like a Professor
Title: How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse Author: Thomas C. Foster Published: New York: Harper Perennial, 2018 I recently read his book…
Book Review: Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Title: Ender’s Game Author: Orson Scott Card Published: New York: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 1994. Pages-349. Preamble This book was recommended to me several years ago and has been sitting…
Book Review: A Manual of English Prose Literature Biographical and Critical by William Minto
Title: A Manual of English Prose Literature Biographical and Critical Designed Mainly to Show Characteristics of Style Author: William Minto Published: Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1881. Pages-548. Preamble This…
Childish vs Childlike
At first it may appear that these two terms are very similar as they deal with children. But that is not really true, as we use them many times to…
Grendel
Title: Grendel Author: John Gardner Published: New York: Vintage Books, 1989 I’m back. For the last three hours I have been Grendel. Caught up in the story by John Gardner. …
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Pygmalion’s Love
Pygmalion gave his love a form A living statue carved by knife Not of woman was she born But by Aphrodite granted life A love that’s true as true can be And beautiful for his eye to see Loyal companion constantly All of this and more was she