Lost Generation, a group of American writers who came of age duringWorld War Iand established their literary reputations in the 1920s. The term is also used more generally to refer to the post-World War I generation. The generation was “lost” in the sense that itsinheritedvalues were no...
" The literary genius of Great Britain," says De Tocqueville, "still darts its rays into the recesses of the West. . . . The small number of men who write are English in substance, and still more in form." Of the great number of men who have written in America since the date of ...
Review of: Faithful passages: American Catholicism in Literary Culture, 1844–1931, by J. E. RyanThis study examines the development of Catholic literature – broadly defined – over the course of nearly a century, beginning with "the nation's rapid development" of an "industrialized print ...
The price of comic ingenuity, Lehman observes, has somewhat affected the literary success of Kenneth Koch. As both an admirer of Koch’s brilliant catalogues and innovative one-line poems, Lehman is perhaps the most enamored of this poet. Koch is a lauded teacher (his antic assignments have b...
H. Auden (& more) in the new "Literary Matters" Mary Jo Salter on W. H. Auden in Literary Matters What is the secret meaning of the last line of "Epitaph on a Tyrant": "And when he cried, the little children died in the street"? To what extent does "New Year Letter" owe its...
41、9;s literary creation and two of his most famous legendary talcs: Rip Van Winkle and Legend of the Sleepy Hollow2.3 Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales and his importance as the builder of the American myth3. Read and analyze some passages from Rip Van Winkle by Washington IrvingIV. Homework...
Ten years after her teenage daughter went missing, a mother begins a new relationship only to discover she can't truly move on until she answers lingering questions about the past. Laurel Mack’s life stopped in many ways the day her 15-year-old daughter, Ellie, left the house to study ...
Nevertheless, a basis of interest in distant voyages had been found which had not existed before; and the further exploration of the African coast was certain, even in default of the personal enlightenment and enthusiasm of the Navigator. The expeditions sent by the prince and private voyages mad...
“I never came to Washington as a widow on purpose to set my cap for the first candidate for the Presidency, and I never made a public spectacle of my indecent eagerness in the very galleries of the Senate; and Mrs. Lee ought to be ashamed of herself. She is a cold-blooded, ...
It should go without saying that both 53 and 54 should be written in literary style. Personally my goal was to spend no more than 10 minutes on 51 and 52, about 12 minutes on 53, and about 28 minutes on 54. I think that I stayed pretty close to that goal, and did finish all fou...