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Barbara Snedecor recently edited the University of Missouri Press book, Gravity: Selected Letters of Olivia Langdon Clemens. She talked about her love for Clemens and why this book is an important rea
“That’s the thing about life, something you think lends it a purpose doesn’t last forever.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English Romantic novelist who is best known as the author of Frankenstein, a text that is part Gothic novel and part philosophical novel and is also often considered an early example of science fiction. Learn more about her life and works in this article.
STONINGTON — Noted scholar Jonathan F.S. Post, a Stonington summer resident who grew up in Connecticut and taught at Yale before moving to California to teach in the English Department
Here is the opening of a sonnet written by Wilfred Owen in the spring of 1911: ‘Three colours have I known the Deep to wear;/ ’Tis well today that Purple grandeurs gloom.’ Owen was 18 and had just been on a pilgrimage to Teignmouth in Devon, where his hero John Keats had once stayed. The