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The Scarlet Letter - Chapter 13
Hester Prynne, moved by the the intense misery Mr. Dimmesdale is struggling with, plans to rescue him.
Illustration: "Hester in the House of Mourning" from the 1878 edition of The Scarlet Letter published by Charles R. Osgood & Co. in Boston. Drawn by Mary Hallock Foote and engraved by A.V.S. Anthony. Courtesy of hawthorneinsalem.
If you [...]
Poem of the Week - Stopping by Woods ...
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening was written in 1922 by Robert Frost, and was published in 1923 in his New Hampshire volume.He wrote this poem about winter in June, 1922 at his house in Shaftsbury, Vermont. Frost had been up the entire night writing the long poem New [...]
Poem of the Week - Shakespeare's Sonnet 18
Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 is perhaps the best known and most well-loved of all his 154 sonnets; it may be the most famous lyric poem in English. It is addressed to a young man of great beauty and promise, and the speaker urges the young man to marry and perpetuate his virtues through children, and warns [...]
Poem of the Week - Red Slippers
Amy Lowell was born in 1874 at Sevenels, a ten-acre family estate in Brookline, Massachusetts. As a young girl she was first tutored at home, then attended private schools in Boston, during which time she madeseveral trips to Europe with her family. At seventeen she secluded herself in the 7,000-book library at Sevenals to [...]
