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“The Kiss” [by Italo Svevo]
The first kiss, I gave you as coldly as I would have put my name to a contract; the second, I gave with enormous curiosity to analyze you and myself, but in fact, I…
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“Mush from the Wimp” Department [by Walter Carey]
When it was Megan's turn to pick a sentence we could ridicule, she took out a recent New Yorker and quoted Louis Menand on Charles Dickens: "In life, there is little evidence that Dickens…
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“Mush from the Wimp” Department [by Walter Carey]
When it was Megan's turn to pick a sentence we could ridicule, she took out a recent New Yorker and quoted Louis Menand on Charles Dickens: "In life, there is little evidence that Dickens…
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“I hear an army charging upon the land. .” [by James Joyce]
I hear an army charging upon the land, And the thunder of horses plunging, foam about their knees: Arrogant, in black armour, behind them stand, Disdaining the reins, with fluttering whips, the charioteers. They…
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“I hear an army charging upon the land. .” [by James Joyce]
I hear an army charging upon the land, And the thunder of horses plunging, foam about their knees: Arrogant, in black armour, behind them stand, Disdaining the reins, with fluttering whips, the charioteers. They…
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Thom Gunn Summarizes Henry James in 2 Lines
Jamesian Their relationship consistedIn discussing if it existed. — Thom Gunn (pictured) Poetry challenge: sum up a great author in eight words divided across two rhyming lines.