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Tag Archives: American writer
The Raven
When it appeared in 1845, the dark poem of lost love, The Raven, brought Edgar Allen Poe national fame. "With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not - they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry [...]
The Great Gatsby - Chapter 7, Part 1
Nick goes to the Buchanans for an afternoon with Tom, Daisy, Gatsby, and Jordan. While they are there the group sees Daisy's child for the first time. As the group is talking Daisy says she loves Gatsby in front of Tom but he thinks nothing of it. Then they all decide to go into [...]
Poem of the Week - In the Highlands
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins", as G. K. Chesterton put it. Most modernist writers dismissed him, [...]
The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1
The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, the story is set in New York City and Long Island during the summer of 1922.
The novel chronicles an era that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the "Jazz Age." Following the shock and chaos of World War I, [...]
