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Robert Burns
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Translated poetry
of Robert Burns. This link is to the Burns Index page on this site
from which the poems of Robert Burns are available. This is an ongoing
project.
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Sarah
Orne Jewett |
"There was a rocking-chair which looked as if it
felt too grand for use, and considered itself imposing. It tilted
far back on its rockers, and was bent forward at the top to make one's head
uncomfortable. It need not have troubled itself; nobody would ever
wish to sit there."
From Sarah Orne Jewett's Deephaven, published in 1877.
She is largely ignored now, perhaps because her short stories are better
than her novels, perhaps because her subjects were the old sea captains
and widow women of quiet New England towns. This link is to the
Sarah Orne Jewett Text Project, which is publishing all her writings to
the web.
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Manly Wade
Wellman
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He scripted The Spirit comic strips in the
1940s, wrote the first issue of Captain Marvel, was a major and reliable
contributor to the old Weird Tales and to Ellery Queen's
Mystery Magazine, wrote extensively about the Civil War and American
history, penned westerns, traveled with Vance Randolph gathering folklore
in the Ozarks, published dozens of novels and scores of short stories for
both adults and young readers. In short, Manly Wade Wellman was a
"writer's writer" but a favorite of ours for his "spooky" work, especially
the novels and stories about Silver John, John the Balladeer.
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Clarence Day's Simian World
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He is the fellow that wrote Life With Father
for which he is fairly well known. Here is a little known piece that
is funny, thoughtful, and full of insight into our simian, er, human condition.
It explains a lot.
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Rupert Brooke
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Rupert Brooke (1887 - 1915) was recognized as one of
Britain's finest young poets, and the poems he wrote during the First World
War enhanced his reputation. His death of blood poisoning at the beginning
of the disasterous Gallipoli campaign greatly moved those who had read his
lines: "If I should die, think only this of me: / That there's some corner
of a foreign field / That is forever England".
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