Anne Bradstreet
by Karen M. Kline The name Anne Dudley Bradstreet is not recognized by many. Who was she? Why celebrate her life? Read on, discover the…
Tag: Poetry
The Remains of a Dream: Alexander Pope’s Villa at Twickenham
By Loredana Massa For a common tourist, nowadays, Twickenham, part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, may mean nothing but a nice little…
D. H. Lawrence Revisted
The lonely desert mesas stretched to a line of mountains etched on the stark blue horizon. At an elevation of 7,000 feet the morning air was crisp an…
Naulakha, Rudyard Kipling’s Priceless Jewel
By Ann Wallace I feel no twinge of conscience To deny me any theme When care has cast her anchor In the harbor of a…
John Keats and the Casina Rosa
The "Casina Rossa" or "Little Red House" sits next to the Spanish Steps in the Piazza di Spagna in Rome. An unprepossessing building built in 1725, it…
The Legacy of Dylan Thomas in Wales
Since the untimely death of Dylan Thomas in November 1953, the writer's popularity has escalated, especially in his native Wales. In Swansea, the city…
Emily Dickinson’s Homestead
As a junior in high school, studying American Literature for the first time, I claimed Emily Dickinson as my poet. I felt as though I alone were given…
Carl Sandburg’s Connemara
Twenty-four miles south of Asheville in Flat Rock, NC, there once lived a Midwestern poet that wrote for the common man. His name was Carl Sandburg. H…